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Thanks for the responses everyone. I have to admit my motivation on this project absolutely cratered after the Spa fork turned out not to be the solution. The fork is still lying on the floor in a cardboard box because I haven't built up the will to email them again and beg to return it. Additionally I spent a couple of weeks messaging someone on here about buying some Ultegra cranks off them and could never manage to pin them down to an actual meeting time, so have given up on that too. I'm supposed to be leaving the country with this bike half-assembled in two weeks' time, and it's not looking good.
I did have a realization though, which is that the Condor forked I linked to above is not actually the one used on the Fratello, because it doesn't have mudguard eyelets. So it may be a specific fork for the Fratello that isn't sold separately.
@Jome Aside from not knowing anything about steel forks I'm not necessarily opposed to them. But would like to stick with the same brakes front and rear, so a frankenstein fork setup doesn't suit. Same goes for the fork @TvH mentioned, it might work but wouldn't look right!
@jono84 Think I need something like 27 cm for the size of this frame. Thanks for the pointer though.
@T_Unit I'm basically crossing my fingers and hoping for a cheap Fratello F+F to come up somewhere, that I can salvage the fork from... wish me luck! This seller offered me the whole bike for £200 cash but have avoided the temptation https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156248843750
@DanM @PhilDAS Thanks for the links, don't think I would be buying any of those with confidence that they would fit or look right haha.