Tod, I have a 'traut Limited Touring just a bit taller, also with a fairly short top tube. Mine has the same lugs, same triangle punch-outs in the lugs, same seatstay/seatlug treatment, same rack braze-ons, same brake bridge, yadda yadda yadda. My serial number is stamped on the underside of the bb shell (75L493). Maybe the blue spray-over on yours has filled in the numbers?
I don't see these on ebay as often as the Limited Road; don't know what the original build/sales mix was like. IIRC, one or more of the well-known high-zoot frame painters have the proper SFO summer-of-love graphics Limited decals.
Mine rides nice, and like my Witcomb USA, I value it as a touchstone for early work from some of the current KOF/master framebuilders. I'm intrigued by the stuff these guys were building when they were working on their chops and not yet sufficiently established to build/market under their own name. Though there were differences in production vs. custom, med-volume vs. low-volume, etc,....
Limited>Gordon/Stevenson/etc as Witcomb USA>Sachs/Weigle.
Hope you get some good $$ for the frame, and I hope the buyer is happy with his/her purchase.
Cheers,
Paul Brodek Hillsdale, NJ
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:48:18 -0800, "Tod Kapke" <tod@blastomedia.com>
wrote:
>The so called Eisentraut is mine.. I will post some high res picks
>today so everybody can see if it is indeed a traut.. I really wish it
>fit me.. especially since it was another thrift store find.. A De Rosa
>and now a Traut from the same thrift store.. what are the odds?
>
>thanks,
>Tod Kapke
>Denver Colorado
>
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Paul C. Brodek
Hillsdale, N.J. U.S.A.
E-mail: pcb@skyweb.net