Re: [CR]Flags on Masi decal

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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:21:39 -0700
From: "Brian Baylis" <rocklube@adnc.com>
To: David Goerndt <davidg@iag.net>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Flags on Masi decal
References: <BNEPINBIKJLICLKFBJACIEDJDBAA.mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net> <001701c154d5$f6714470$6a4a1ecf@leonardo>


David,

Having looked around my stuff and talking with Jim Allen, I have found the same as Jim did; they're all the same. I have a idea what might explain the situation. One, back in the late 70's Rexart/Medici had gran criterium decals reproduced. There is a possibility that it is one of those, but I would be very surprised if there were any changes made to that artwork. The other possibility is that someone reproduced them and intentionally changed the artwork for some reason, perhaps to avoid "copyright infringement" or something. Don't know why someone would do this, but if you have a decal then obviously someone did. That is a complicated multicolor decal set which is no easy chore to reproduce. Are you POSITIVE that the decal you have came from Masi USA? No one there knows anything about a "variation" of the Gran Criterium decal set. I don't know what to tell you on this one. Any detectives in the group?

Brian Baylis La Mesa, CA
>
> I was comparing the flags used on the down tube decal on my GC and noticed a
> strange discrepency. It seems that on all of the older US Masis, the flags
> used are: Belgium (Black-Red-Yellow vertical bands), Italian, Swiss, French
> and United States. On the Masi I have (which is a repaint with decals
> furnished by Masi USA) the flags used are: German (Black-Red-Yellow
> horizontal bands), Luxembourg or Netherlands (Red-White-Blue horizontal
> bands), Spain(?) (Red-Yellow-Red hiorizontal bands), Finland (Blue Cross on
> White field), Austria(?) (Red-White-Red horizontal bands), Sweden (Yellow
> cross on Blue field). My question is, why are the flags used so different
> from the early Masi decals? Is there some copyright problem that keeps the
> currently available decals from using the original flag lineup?

>

> David Goerndt