Re: eBay # 280410458517
This is a beautifully preserved bike & very interesting to look at. My guess that it is not a top-of-the-line model. Was there perhaps something (model name) above "Speciale"?
I would like to have seen the process used to make the upper seat stay ends. Looks to me that rather than use the "top eye" plugs or caps or plates, the builders somehowpressed/squeezed the seat stay tube and collapsed it into concavity, then shaped it into the spoon point we see.... It's a moderately elegant result using a relatively crude process.
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina USA