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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:27:41 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
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Subject: [CR]Now: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ideal=E9?=Was: Brooks Saddles - Latest News From Web Site

John Burdett wrote:
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> I've got a saddle which looks and sounds like a Brooks. It's hard brown
> leather, adjustable tension, steel rails with copper rivets and is stamped
> IDEALE COMPETITION... MADE IN FRANCE. Anybody know the history of this
> brand of saddle and which came first.. the Brits or the French ?


>From Velo-Retro <www.velo-retro.com>:

•Idéale Saddles -- 26 pages, compilation of catalog pages and flyers from 1932 to the late 1980s of this famous French saddle manufacturer that started business in 1890 and went out of business in the 1980s. Color cover. $ 7

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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