Diamond Plaid

N 25

Issued in 1906. Discontinued in 1908. A fittingly short run for a very uninteresting back design that was hardly worthy of the esteemed Bicycle brand. Like the Club back, this must have been designed to compete with other club cards with simple repeating pattern backs, such as Dougherty’s Bee No. 92. Extremely rare; I have never seen a deck or single card.

Note that because I lack actual examples, I have colored these images from Mrs. Robinson’s pamphlet a generic red and blue.