[CR]Early Bottecchia headbadge

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

From: "Daniel" <dahlq@galenalink.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 07:47:44 -0500
Subject: [CR]Early Bottecchia headbadge

Dear Group, I have an early Bottecchia with fancy lugs that I believe to be from the forties or early fifties. It is missing the headbadge. Unlike all the other Bottecchias I've seen, the holes in the headtube are drilled from left to right (side to side) instead of top to bottom. Does anyone have one of these earlier badges, or even know what they looked like? I am tempted to take a more recent Bottecchia badge and fill the existing holes and redrill from left to right...but I am unsure that this badge would be correct. Any help or insight will be appreciated.

Warmly, Daniel Dahlquist