i beleive herse used decals later on, near the end, after whoever it was that did the lettering died... could be wrong though. jan? fits with the later date on this bike - the "gentleman" model pictured in the 1970s herse catalogue, and the "champs-elysees" listed in the 1980s catalogue show this style bike, but without the porteur rack (though again, this porteur rack is the lightweight version, with braces to the middle of the fork blades rather than the dropouts)
oh, and scratch my photoshop comments on the china auction - he just nicked a picture from alex's yahoo album of this bike - the background photoshopping is actually on the *real* sellers auction. heh.
-joel
>On Saturday, Nov 19, 2005, at 11:39 US/Pacific, joel metz wrote:
>>the original, and actual sale, from a reputable seller, is here:
>>http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
>Now that's my kind of bike. Of course since it's not a racing or
>touring bike I think he'll be lucky to get $2000, which is really
>too bad. I do have one thing I find odd about the bike. This bike
>has a downtube decal and not hand-drawn lettering like all the other
>Herses I've seen. See the decal here
><http://www.pianosromantiques.com/images/schott8211.JPG>. Does
>anyone know the story about this? The hand-drawn lettering is one
>of those things that make Herse bikes special in my mind.
>best,
>Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
>Vancouver, B.C.
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i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
after she got that bicycle...