Originally Posted by
Citoyen du Monde
The letter A is it the same size as the other characters? If the A is a different font or different size it sounds to me like you have a repainted Italian bike. Alberto often put letters and numbers on frames and forks when they got repainted.
Somtimes, on the underside of the chainstays. My bike - sold to me by Citoyen du Monde in fact - has one of those repaint numbers on one chainstay tang.