That's a Milremo branded stem. Milremo was the house brand for Ron Kitching. Chuck Schmidt sells nice reprints of his catalogs.
Eric Elman
Somers, CT USA
> can anyone identify the maker of this stem ???
>
> http://ebay.com/
>
> For future reference (after the auction is gone), it looks like a
> cinelli 1-A stem with 3 wide flutes ending in semicircles - down the
> sides and top, and says something like 'Gilbema' or 'Cilbiema' on the
> head/front.
>
> I'm guessing it's french only because of the accent on the 'e' in the
> spelling on the stem. Quite likely, the brand may have died because
> their logo was too hard to decipher !! Can you imagine walking into a
> bikeshop and saying, "Sir, sell me another <mumble>, please!" :-) :-)
>
> If this is from a newly discovered ancient parts-maker, should we try
> to host these photos on the CR Website ?
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA