Frame

9004

Untraced

Ordered 2.4.90 with delivery promised six to eight weeks; no deposit is recorded. A business telephone number is pencilled diagonally across the address lines, and a pencilled sum sits in the bottom corner: 22.95, 18.68 and 25.20 above a total of 66.83. The “5” of the printed “5/10 SPEED” line is struck through, and “Short” in the lugs entry is underlined. “531c.” is pencilled at the head of the sheet.

Ordered: 2.4.90
Tubing: 531c
Frame: 22"
Top tube: 21
Ends: Standard
Headset: Tange
Wheels: HPs (sprints struck out), with mudguard clearance (no struck out)
Equipment: Ultegra B.B. set
Brazed on: Two gear lever bosses on the down tube, 3 guides on the top tube, centre-pull brake bridge, one set of TA bottle cage bosses on the down tube
Customer: Mr Kevin Shine, Clifton Grove

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A high-resolution print of the sheet, not the original. Giclée on enhanced matte art paper, mounted in snow white, glazed, in a solid wood frame. Free UK postage. £15 goes to Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance.

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A print of the 9004 sheet, framed — to scale above a two-metre sofa

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