[CR]Fluted seatpost/ pin/ pillar time line?

(Example: Framebuilding:Paint)

From: "Dr. Paul Williams" <castell5@sympatico.ca>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:52:36 -0400
Subject: [CR]Fluted seatpost/ pin/ pillar time line?

Hi all,

Does anyone have a time line for when fluted seatposts (pins/ pillars) first appeared? Seatposts seem to be absent altogether from the 1939 and 1952 Brown Brothers catalogues that I have.

Paul Williams,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada