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Interesting that you should mention René Herse quill stems, there's one for sale near where I live in Paris. I can go and pick it up for someone if they can afford it.
https://www.leboncoin.fr/velos/1949660431.htm?ac=103546619
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There’s been no incentive for manufacturers to push limits of quills since ahead became the standard ,in general new quill fitted bikes have been absolute bottom of the range or the very top custom made where owners are maybe more concerned with stem reliability and less so saving weight ,maybe some of the lightweight quill stems used different density alloy [?]certainly that SR looks v slim with little widening out at stressed areas ,struggling to find weights but you need to Google the stems fitted to original René Herse bikes which were also made in-house and I think the new owners are re-introducing them ,if an original ever comes up for sale it’ll be around £500 ,but they are absolutely stripped back