Ok, just an update...forum member ldmataya has been kind enough to provide me with an NOS Bottecchia head badge. This was sort of the last piece in my "is it really a Bottecchia" puzzle though I was 99.9% sure already and yes, the holes line up exactly between the head tube and the badge so that pretty much seals it. I now have bids in on eBay for rims (Mavic Module E), an old style Record rear derailleur, and a rather worn set of shifters, probably Valentino, but with the black contol lever plates on the part number 1202 down tube twin control clip. I'll use that for parts if I win it.

The big hold up now is likely to be the decals. I haven't heard from JRrestore in a while and Greg Softley at CycloMondo doesn't have them and says he would prefer not to make these style of decals unless there is no alternative. That may end up being the case but at any rate it's certainly going to delay things. Well, that and the 5% pay cut I just took at work