Jim,
I just have to chime and say that these Claud Butler frames are stunning! What a find! I have paged through a black and white copy of a postwar CB catalog for years and often wondered what the elaborately depicted finishes looked like "in the flesh". Fabulous.
Paul Raley
Leonardtown MD
"Jim Cunningham" <cyclartist@cox.net> wrote:
>Mick,
>
>Thank your help in confirming that my frame is a Worlds Championship
>Path Model. I had posted it as such based on those words on the ancient
>wrapping and the 1940 catalog. I had based my 1952 model year on the
>1953 introduction of a new dropout style and purchase date guestimate
>from the estate. Using your system for interpreting the serial numbers
>makes this frame 1949. This makes sense in that the date stamp on the
>ASC and Campy hubs stored with the frame were date stamped 49.
>
>Listmember Tobias Shapiro has purchased another virgin CB frame from our
>website store and is outfitting it with NOS components stored with it.
>I'm glad to see the frame go to an appreciative home determined to
>outfit it authentically. We are listing more of these items daily at:
>
>http://www.cyclart.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Store_Code=C&S
>creen=CTGY&Category_Code=DIR
>
>Go to "Claud Butler Specials" a the bottom of that page to browse the
>items found with the frames. After years of professional race bike
>restoration, this cache is full of great bits I've never had before.
>It's sad to take them from the showcase and send them off, but I still
>feel privileged to have put them into loving hands. For many of these
>exceptional items I'll be sending the photos to Dale to post for
>posterity.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Jim Cunningham
>Excited at CyclArt
>Vista, CA
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
>[mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Michael
>Butler
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:13 AM
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR] Re Claud on eBay with Bi-lam lugs
>
> I am positive that the Claud Butler frame on eBay is the very rare
>"Worlds Championship Path Model". Over my cycling years I have seen
>loads of "International Path" and "Olympic Path" Claud's but this is
>only the third "Worlds Path" I have ever seen, and when you consider
>this makers prolific output its the rarest of the rare. What I can't
>understand is why this exceptionally scarce "Virgin Claud" is not
>attracting more vigorous bidding.
>This truly is the king of lightweights.
>
>
>
>
>Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK
>
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