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@Wingedangel
I have to agree with the Joe Waugh identification, apart from the cable guides everything says it should be, the way seat stays wrap to the seat collar looks typical, and the cinelli bb sounds right too. The lugs from the head tube to the downtube should have a long finely graduated spearpoint tang.
As for it missing the forks ideally it shouldn't be too much of an issue, a good pair of 653 or 531's will do the job. Remember that the forks would have been quite steep without eyelets, and most probably campag/colombus dropouts.
Joe waugh was an Olympian, and now owns M.Steel cycles...when he hung up his shoes riding pro he teamed up with Dave Yates to make frames with his moniker, which were very good quality, and often built to customer spec. That often explains the differences in the overall spec i.e the owner of my frame had it built for him in 1982, and tho its 653 it has colombus dropouts which are specific to this frame. Usually you get colombus dropouts on there tubes...with reynolds its usually campag dropouts.
They were such good quality cause Dave Yates built them...and he is arguably one of the best frame builders in the country.