[CR]Mafac brake levers, something special?

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

From: "David Bilenkey" <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca>
To: "Classicrendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:29:50 -0400
Subject: [CR]Mafac brake levers, something special?

What makes these Mafac brake levers:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2118159238

special (besides someone paying over $120 CDN for them)? Is there a discernable feature about these that anyone can point out? I'll start looking at my old pairs of levers more closely if there is! :-)

Curious,

David Bilenkey in sunny
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada