Tricycle Fetish Blog

Q: Could you please take a look at my recent purchase and tell me anything about it?

A: Your tricycle is a mid-late 1930′s trike made by the Junior Toy Company.  This tricycle was part of their Sky Line.  If you had the original catalogs from that time, you could narrow down the model number, but usually the tricycles are just referred to as Sky Lines.   The highest end model of the Sky Line was the Sky King.  Yours isn’t a Sky King, but it appears to be an upper end model with a light.

Q: I hope that you can help us to identify this tricycle. It has been fully restored and is in excellent condition.  The ‘Batwing’ handlebars are reminiscent of the Junior Toy Co. style.  Any assistance will be greatly appreciated including a ballpark valuation.

A: Your tricycle was indeed made by the Junior Toy Co.  It is from the  late 1930′s Sky Line, which was a series of streamlined tricycles of which the Sky King was the top of the line.  Your tricycle is referred to as the Sky Knight due to the knight’s mask type head tube design.

As far as value goes, we only give values out to those who’ve purchased our online price guide for a number of reasons.  We also don’t really like to give valuations for restored tricycles.  It’s so hard to tell from the pictures what kind of job was done.  In a 600 pixel wide photo, the tricycle looks perfect, but it may or may not be in real life when you’re standing in front of it.  Basically most tricycles are worth more before restoration, unless done by an expert restorer who has used 100% all original parts.

1938 Junior Sky Tot Before & After

Mike sent in this photo of his Junior Sky Tot project that he recently completed.