On a junked Motobecane' Mirage I salvaged this afternoon from a rubbish pile, I found a rather weatherbeaten (and yet essentially unridden) Brooks-style saddle. Perhaps you have seen these before ?
It is chrome-steel-railed with adjusting bolt and nut ala Brooks and Wright with small ex-chromed rivits. On the sides are embossed (branded ?) an oval logo with the following bits still more or less possible to make out:
ADGA Chatillon..a.. (?) 28.A
with smaller ovals towards the nose that say something that might have been "Rodeo", maybe.
This saddle has been horribly abused, over the years, and deep gouges in the underside show where the seat pin clamp has been chewing up into it from it never having been tightened. I am thinking of slathering it with some old ProofHide and putting a hair dryer to it, then tightening it up to see what it might re-form into.
Probably a cheap French Wright-copy ?
Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC