What is this engraving? NR seatpost
05-29-12, 05:31 AM
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What is this engraving? NR seatpost
The milling is very nice, but the compass-like engravings are crude. Do they mean something, refer to a brand maybe?
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Just plot the frame angles and geometry on google maps, discover a secret plot to establish a new orld order and suddenly find youself in a dan brown novel.
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Never mind the compass, I don't lile the way the flutes cuts into the Campagnolo brand engraving. at the top of the post shafts.
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05-30-12, 12:56 AM
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OK, and I hate esoterics... Thought there might be a small chance that it was bike-related. The good thing is probably that its supernatural powers are still in working order, since it came grotesquely attached to an MX-leader 
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Yes, it was the Kessels "logo". It was on some fork crowns and also engraved on some stems and posts like you have. Seeing that you are in Belgium, I would say that it is in the right place!
05-30-12, 11:25 AM
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OK, very cool, some mysteries are not so mysterious after all (the truth is out there but it's in Ostend). I'll try and find some pics. Thanks vjp.
05-30-12, 12:14 PM
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Wonder if he actually was a Free Mason, compass, sun... He probably just liked the estetics, controversy didn't help your business in catholic Flanders in the 70ies.
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Same here ... poorly done.
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Yeah well, some seventies riders didn't care about those things.
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