Early 1900s stroller

Hello all, just joined the forum.

My coworker has a stroller that his mother rode in when she was an infant. We're trying to figure out a good price to sell it for (especially since Haloween is just around the corner).

From what I've read it's definitely older than 1950s - I'm guessing 1920s and the one hub cap is labeled "Colier".

 

I agree with Bookahtoo. If I recall correctly, the one I used for my son in the late 60's was the same.

 

That's possible but his mother is 91 years old now.. But perhaps it was a different stroller

 

Scroll down to 1953
http://thebirdfeednyc.com/2011/11/28/the-baby-stroller-a-visual-history/

Collier baby carriages
https://www.google.com/search?q=col..._AUoAmoVChMIiOHHyK-JyAIVDzuICh2CLw6L&dpr=0.85

 

I've some of those hubcaps.....somewhere that may as well be new.

 

I concur.

 

WAIT!!!!
Son... 60s..... Get outa here Bakers!!!

 

Well, it was the very late 60's, but still....

 

Not buyin' it.......

 

Heh. Tell that to my son.

 

I thought that was called a pram ?

 

"Baby Carriage" was the American usage back then. "Strollers" didn't come along until they made the kind in which the child was seated, instead of lying down.

 

Matt, welcome to the forum!

Like the others have said, this definitely not a 1920s baby carriage. It could date anytime from the late 1940s - 1970s. Here are examples of baby carriages from different eras:

1905-1913
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3622/3432754208_c5bbe36ebb.jpg

1920
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3023/3013279550_b5e3c12e62.jpg

1931
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/167/404103426_7b2f75cabe.jpg

1943 NYC
http://thebirdfeednyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1943-in-the-park.jpg

1953
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2192/2100453950_6743dff8e5.jpg

>Well, it was the very late 60's, but still....<

Ditto here, but it was a daughter. I also agree we called this style a baby carriage. Some times they were referred to as baby buggies. Today most people don't know what they were called, and just group them into the stroller category.

>I thought that was called a pram ?<

Maybe baby carriages pre-1930s were called prams, but we didn't in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Prams may be more of a British term?

>...figure out a good price to sell it for..<

If you do a Google search on "Collier-Keyworth" baby carriage, many images similar to this one will come up. Also searching around eBay will come up with several in this style. Be aware that those in an active sale/auction may be over priced, wishful thinking on the part of the sellers. You need to check "sold" carriages to see what they really sold for. Here are some active sales:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...S1&_nkw=1950s+Collier+Baby+carriages&_sacat=0

--- Susan

 

Ooops, just noticed Pat/Cluttered already posted the page link where I linked to the pictures separately and suggested the Google search. Oh well, pleaseee skip over my previous reply!!

--- Susan

 

British is a pram, derived from the full name, a perambulator, which has much the same meaning as stroller. Just a bit more formal.

Nowadays people mostly use push-chairs, which may be what US users refer to as a stroller. They are often referred to as baby buggies, probably by the type of people whosay OMG and Awesome.

Both devices are useful for pushing out into the road in front of the mother to check if there is any traffic coming.

In the 50's, discarded prams were the joy of small boys who turned them into go-carts.

I see the one illustrated has the optional settee attachment for taking the grandparents along as well. These can prove cumbersome on narrow pavements (sidewalks).

 

This may sound a bit odd, but that carriage looks exactly like the very large doll carriage I got for Christmas in 1958.

I just gave it away when we were downsizing for our move last year, so I had a good chance to look at it closely then (for the first time in years.) At that point, I actually considered whether mine had been made for a doll or if it was for a real baby - it really was that big.

The color, interior, construction, wheels - even the details on the folding mechanism for the "hood" - shown in the photo here are identical to those on the one that I had.

(Maybe mine truly was intended for a real baby and not a doll?) Either way, it was definitely 1958 when I got it.

 

I went looking for my mother's baby/childhood picture album last night - she was born in '26, so if she were still with us, she would be 89 now - because I remembered (vaguely) a few with her in a baby carriage. Found it, but since most of the images are focused on Baby more than the carriage, there weren't any clear images showing the carriage's construction. It was clearly made of the wicker or wicker-like material shown in the 20's examples, though.