The seller - Steven Maasland - is on the list, so perhaps he can fill in the details. But even if he had found this frame bare and unpainted - and without a headbadge - there really would be no doubt of it being a Cinelli. The seat stay treatment and seatpost diameter are really accurate indicators.
Considering when this frame must have been built, I'm not surprised that it has a bottom bracket shell with an unused oiler boss. In some cases, the oilers persisted into the late 1950s and this frame was built only a few years later. No doubt there were all sorts of frame building supplies sitting on workshop shelves - for several years - that needed to be used up.
I think it gives the bike a real mark of distinction, linking
it to an earlier era in a very charming way.
Regards,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> Is it really a Cinelli or something else with the oriental
> head badge applied and other odd bits and measurements?
> Curious minds want to know. Art Link,San Antonio,TX
>
> gabriel l romeu <romeug@comcast.net> wrote: Date: Thu, 15 Mar
> 2007 10:11:14 -0400
> From: gabriel l romeu <romeug@comcast.net>
> To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org"
> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: [CR]sitting on the shelves of the Cinelli factory...
>
> as someone who makes things, keeps stock around for future
> projects, i
> am always intrigued by a detail on the object which speaks to
> process-
> in this case an obsolete fixture on a part of a frame.
>
> what i am speaking of is on this far too small for me but
> rather
> beautiful Cinelli on ebay,
> http://tinyurl.com/
>
> I quote, "It does however have the casting for the placement
> of the
> oiler on the top side of the BB shell (it has not been
> drilled out
> though). "
>
> the logistic possibilities of a BB shell having a oil hole
> not drilled
> is so interesting on this bike- was it sitting on the bottom
> of the box
> from last year, was someone saving it for a 'special' build,
> or was it
> sequenced to be one of the last of these bracket shells
> laying around?
>
> Maybe this is of no interest to anyone else, but to me, such
> 'clues' and
>
> idiosyncratic objects represent a bit of the 'behind the
> scenes'
> workings of the small shop.
> --
> gabriel l romeu
> 70 deg f here today, calling for sleet tomorrow,
> confusing the robins and penguins in chesterfield nj usa...
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