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can't say i've seen those on these stays
with the seat stay cap lettering, as you said nuovo has, which was always the master precursor, so, as you say, this is one of the first generation masters,
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my eyes/screen trick me that it's saronni red, not sure,
this one here purports to be from '84,has the flat,non round stay caps, but the top of the line in the catalog was the nuovo afaik
Interesting profile to the rear chainstays, just about see it from the pictures. Haven't seen that on a master before but haven't seen an early one in the flesh to notice it
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