Well, it is me who´s got the other Dalcerri. Splendid as Bob´s restoration results are, I´m one to stick with original surfaces, even if they aren´t perfect, and to my mind my Dalcerri definitively is too good for stripping the paint, even though it was badly scratched in the box Carsten used, I´m afraid to say. It was a typical case of sending a completely unwrapped bike, with the q/r nuts resting against the frame tubes. Arrgh. So there´s one perfectly restored example now and one original one, which should please all tastes.
Bob, the photos you have of my bike are pretty gruesome, too, so you might be under the impression that the paintwork is considerably worse than it actually is.
Anyway, the reason I´m writing is that in our quest for more info about Dalcerri I wrote a letter, accompanied by a couple of photos of my cycle, to the still existing cycle company of that name, but never received a reply. I actually enlisted the services of a kind soul to translate the letter into Italian, so perhaps someone who is fluent in that language might be willing to give the firm a call to see if there´s any info left on their sliding hub cycles? I would be especially interested to learn who built their frames and where they got those superbe lugs during the period Bob´s and my cycles were made, i.e. around 1950. BTW, I found the address in a simple internet search engine operation.
Regards,
Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.