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Sterling Cycle Co., 1888 Historic Early I/U Bicycling Stock Certificate.

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Sterling Cycle Co., 1888 Historic Early I/U Bicycling Stock Certificate.
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Maine, 1888, I/U Stock, 5 Shares, #70, Black print with ornate black border and Bald Eagle vignette center, VF condition with vertical crease down middle from folding, John A. Lowell & Co. In 1894 Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky traveled "around the world" on a Sterling. Starting from Boston and heading west, her first bike was a Columbia but it proved unsuitable. In Chicago, the Sterling company gave her a men's Sterling (weighing 21 pounds, it had no brakes) which made riding in skirts impossible. She then wore bloomers and finally rode in a men's riding suit. Peter Zheutlin's book "Around the World on Two Wheels" records her journey. She claimed to be the first woman to "cycle around the world", duplicating a feat that Thomas Stevens had accomplished 10 years earlier. In 1898 Sterling won a Silver Medal at the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska for its "chainless bicycles and safeties".