I had one stamped with 59 and that is the earliest one I have come across. The one on my 1960 Cinelli S.C. shown in a previous post is stamped A 60.
Chuck Schmidt L.A.
Hilary Stone wrote:
>
> There was a Unicanitor to fit the special Campagnolo post - I have one and I
> think there was an Ideale too. The Brooks saddles are far rarer than the
> special fittings for the seatpost - even in England the saddles are really
> quite uncommon - I have only seen one for sale in the last two or three
> years. They were as far as I can tell introduced in 1959.
>
> Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
>
> > Steven Maasland wrote:
> >>
> >> The following auction is for a set of the narrow saddle clamps for a
> >> Campagnolo Nuovo Record seatpost. How rare are these and apart from
> >> being rather uncommon, do they have any special value? I am asking this
> >> because I have just such a seatpost but have never come across any
> >> saddle that I can use on it. I understand that in theory, using such a
> >> narrow clamp would allow you to have more adjustability, but this is
> >> useless if you don't have the correct saddle.
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/
>
> Chuck Schmidt wrote:>
> > I think you have this exactly right Steven. They are uncommon. But in
> > my opinion they are not rare. They were used with a Brooks B17
> > Competition Standard "Mod. Campagnolo" (stamped in a small oval on the
> > saddle top) saddle.
> >
> > The narrow clamp allowed mega adjustability fore and aft as you said,
> > but the down side was that the narrow bracing angle lets the saddle rock
> > from side to side (voice of experience).
> >
> > They date from the late 50s and early 60s and came stock on Legnanos
> > from that period. I would guess that the few Brooks Mod. Campagnolo
> > saddles I have seen are take-offs from Legnanos, being replaced by the
> > extremely popular Unicanitor plastic saddle (intro'd in 1959).
> >
> > I'm not sure if there was a corresponding narrow rail Unicanitor saddle
> > for this seat post or not, but it would be a simple matter to substitute
> > the normal clamps and use the normal frame rail Unicanitor.