Albert probably had a thousand or more of those early decals, and used what ever he had available, or the decal could even have been added later, hard to say. I have 1977 bikes, and they have the later, typical, (plastic film?) decals.
What's neat about this auction is all of those crisp close-up photos! They really allow one to see that the brazing work on this frame is fabulous. You can imagine how many hundreds (thousands?) of framesets he had already brazed at that point.....
Greg Parker Dexter, Michigan
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 04:00:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> To: Chris Collins <chris@eorbit.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]$0.99 Eisentraut on Ebay (An outing)
This raises a question for me. The Columbus decal is the one identified on the CR site as 60's and very early 70's. Was this decal still in used in 1977, or is the bike older than the seller states?
Regards,
Jerry Moos Houston, TX
Chris Collins <chris@eorbit.net> wrote: Here it is:
http://ebay.com/
>From a pawn broker no less....tch tch!
I have no relation to the seller or this bike other then it says "Oakland" on the frame and I live in Oakland....
--Chris