The original owner is in his late 60s and been ordered to stop riding because he has bone density issues. He was a collector, who had maybe a dozen or so really first rate bikes - all steel - and it looks like almost NONE of them had more than a couple thousand miles on them. As De Rosa had always been a "grail" for me, that's the one of his bikes I went for. I've asked for them to send me a list of what they've got to sell, and what they're asking, so I could post it here. But there's stuff like a Raleigh Team Professional, a Cinelli, a Paramount, you get the gist. He has no familiarity with ebay, so he's using a friend of his who does to list and sell the stuff, and that's who I dealt with.

BTW, Aaron, It looks to me from my internet search that the sloped crown De Rosas predominated in the 1983-1988 timeframe, and that flat crowns dominated both before and after that. That period also coincides with the diagonal flourish pattern alongside the name in their logos. So that's pretty much the timeframe, but by late '87 to 88, they were mostly using SLX, rather than SL tubes.