I agree - lugs aren't typical Cinelli, but the chroming pattern got me. I remember that back in the early-to-mid 1970s there were a number of promising frame builders here in the States turning out some really beautiful stuff - maybe it is one of theirs?
Steve Whitting
Prairieville, Louisiana USA
Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/
From: billydavid13@comcast.net <billydavid13@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [CR] Mystery Mixte on eBay To: "Steve Whitting" <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 9:22 PM
#yiv550726462 p {margin:0;}Hi Steve, all. I seem to recall seeing a Cinelli mixte w/ a SA 3 speed gear at Robert's Cycle here in Chicago 20 or 30 yrs. ago. I think the hub date was early '50s. It might have been a normal women's frame though. I don't know that Cinelli ever used Nervex lugs, though, and the fork crown doesn't look Cinelli to me. A lovely frame indeed! Billy [memory's a little hazy] Ketchum; Chicago, IL; USA.
Uh . . . did Cinelli ever build mixte frames?
Steve Whitting
Prairieville, Louisiana USA
Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/
From: Matthew 'Devotion' Bowne <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com> Subject: [CR] Mystery Mixte on eBay To: "CR discussion list" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 9:04 PM
Anybody have any thoughts as to might have made this interesting mixte currently listed on eBay?
(Item # 370374710675)
Optimistically priced in my opinion...but darn it she is kinda cool!
Matthew Bowne
Brooklyn, NY