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A stamped steel badge, worn thin at the edges, from a bicycle nobody can now identify. What survives of a workshop when the workshop does not.

6 min readIn preparation

This piece is being made. Rather than publish something written to fill the space, here is what it will contain — and it will appear here in full when it is finished.

What this piece will cover

  1. 01The object: dimensions, material, method of manufacture, condition.
  2. 02What can be established about its origin, and what cannot.
  3. 03The wider pattern — how many Italian marques disappeared between 1975 and 2005, and how.
  4. 04The case for documentation as an act of preservation in its own right.
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