I believe you are correct. I recall seeing a beautiful late 40's Gillott at Lars Anderson a few years ago that was owned by a Boston collector, built with very elegant O/E lugs with a double spearpoint detail. I don't know much of the variations of OE lugs, however. Pam Knight Western New York Hilary Stone wrote:Those are not Oscar Egg lugs - they are one of the numerous versions of the Nervex Serie Legere lugs. Oscar Egg style lugs are a good deal plainer - being really from a slightly earlier era.
Hilary Stone in sunny old Bristol, England
Dale Brown wrote:
> In a message dated 9/19/2002 6:52:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> hayesbikes@mail.nls.net writes:
>
> << A Viking "path racer" with track drop-outs
> and fender eyelets. The paint on this appears to be in excellent
> condition, so much so, that I'd guess it to be a repaint ....
> http://ebay.com/
>>>
>
> That's got to be a repaint... also wrong Reynolds decal (too new) methinks..
>
> But what about that reference to Oscar Egg lugs? Are those? Not what I
> thought they would look like but then again I have never known much about O.
> Egg lugs. Those look rather more ordinary than I expected....
>
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