Re: [CR] The Crown on That Colorful Colnago

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:55:13 -0500
From: "George Hollenberg" <ghollmd@gmail.com>
To: George Hollenberg MD <gholl@optonline.net>
Cc: CR discussion list <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] The Crown on That Colorful Colnago


Given the dealer, this is most likely yet another fake. George George Hollenberg, MD

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Edward Albert <ealbert01@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would have to agree with Matthew on this. I have never seen a Colnago
> super fork crown with both the C around the club and the dots on the side.
> Did someone, in the refinishing, fill in the dots?
> Edward Albert
> Chappaqua, New York, USA
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Matthew 'Devotion' Bowne <
> devotion_finesse@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > As mentioned in a previous post, this is a seemingly rare combination of
> > fork crown details...
> > (Sheesh! Will this plot EVER stop thickening???)
> > This semi-sloping, scalloped (Wagner?) crown, with two holes on the
> sides,
> > is typically found on Supers up until about '71, at which point blank
> > Cinelli 'MC' style crowns became the standard (still with holes on the
> > sides)...for all of a year or so, until the club logo first appears on
> the
> > shoulders of them.
> > I obsessed over these crown details for a couple of years while trying to
> > make/obtain an appropriate fork for my '71 Super restoration project. In
> > all of my internet scouring and image collecting, I have never seen this
> > early style crown with any logos on it. And this "C around the club"
> style
> > did not appear until the early-80's, as far as I knew.
> > Anybody ever see this combo before?
> >
> > Matthew Bowne
> > Brooklyn, New York
> >
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> Edward Albert
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-- George

George Hollenberg MD
CT, USA