Dale wrote: "In close scrutiny, there are differences, the most significant is that of the joinery at the dropouts... DeRosa almost always had the extra refined "points" filed in the dropouts where they meet the stays. Later, Eddie also embraced the Columbus pre-crimped stay ends rather than do any filing at all at those junctures. Those and other nuances make me think that, in balance, DeRosa was always slightly more refined... ' ___________________________________________
Check out this ebay De Rosa, which appears to have those self-same "pre-crimped" stay ends referenced by Dale:
Maybe De Rosa wasn't always more refined??
Ed Granger
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA