I’m feeling extremely lucky to have come across these beautiful steel pieces. Sorry, not just pieces, but indispensable parts to build a dream lugged frame. What we have here is a mix of different eras. The rarest is definitely the Masi fork crown engraved with the letters F and M, meaning Faliero Masi of course. This is the rarest and oldest original Masi fork crown I’ve been able to find. As for the rest, you see a much newer Milano 3V casted fork crown with a logo of Milan’s dome on it. Mr. Alberto used that logo for a while after the Masi family sold their brand. The 3rd Masi crown is a classic design, used on several bikes they produced, one of the first models to be made with cast lugs. Once again, you see the name of the builder on it, F.Masi.

The last fork crown is an antique Coppi-Fiorelli model, pretty hard to find too, the holes on the side were closed with two Coppi rounded badges.

The last piece is one of the last Masi Volumetrica BB shell you’ll ever see, this one is a part of a complete lugset. Unfortunately, when the casting company went bankrupt, the molds of these lugs got lost. The entire stock has been used along the years, and today there are probably only a very few sets left.