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From: "Steven Maasland" <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: CR <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:04:40 -0400
Subject: [CR] =?iso-8859-1?q?NOS_1950=27s_Cinelli_Champlev=E9_stem_badge_f?= =?iso-8859-1?q?or_sale?=


Since the last version come through completely garbled in the archives, I am repeating this post once more, hoping that it comes through clearly this time.

"Sky posted a photo of a 1950's Cinelli stem badge:

http://www.velocult.com/index.php/blog/post/1950s_cinelli_cloisonne_headbadge/

If you want to see a non-tarnished version of this same stem badge you can go here:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/maasland/Cinelli_History/Japan.jpg.html

Please also feel free to use this picture however you see fit, I would simply ask that you acknowledge Wooljersey being the place where you got the picture from.

I picked up a number of NOS 1950's stem badges just like this from Andrea Cinelli a few years back and sold a number of them to various collectors throughout the world. At the time that I made these available, there was some discussion as to whether the word cloisonne was indeed the correct term, and it seemed that the term was champleve was perhaps more appropriate. The difference between the two techniques having to deal with how the walls are created. In cloisonne you generally build up barriers by adding wire or similar barriers between the different cells in the design (each cell is filled with a different color enamel), whereas with champlevé you usually make depressions by incision in an originally flat surface. In the case of these stem badges, it would indeed appear that champleve is how these were produced.

If anybody would like to buy one of these stem badges, I would be willing to make one available at $250. The badges are silver-plated brass.

Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ
USA"