Thread: Cinelli headbadge background color?
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Old 02-06-12 | 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Citoyen du Monde
These are a few of the photos that I took of the Cinelli badges and shop signs that I picked up in Italy about 8 years ago.



The early ones had blue backgrounds and were enamel on silver-plated brass. Then around 1960, give or take one year, they switched to a black background but maintained the enamel on silver-plated brass base. Then later in the 60's they switched over to painted badges and then ultimately to painted aluminum badges.
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