Ich bräuchte Hilfe bei der Bestimmung des Baujahres eines Brooks.
Wann war der Wechsel vom ovalen zum eckigen Decal bei einem Brooks
Sattel?
Besten Dank
Das Produktionsdatum steht doch hinten auf dem Querträger. Mußt den
Sattel nur umdrehen und nachschauen.
"The following information was provided by Tony Colegrave, Brooks expert, saddle repairman, and custom leather saddle fabricator.
Tony writes: "Date-stamping on Brooks' cantle plates (the large piece of metal at the rear of the saddle) started in late 1958, when Raleigh took control of the Company, and I think that I can remember seeing a stamp for as late as 1990. The date codes each covered a period of three months (i.e. only the first four letters of the alphabet occur), and, although commonly seen, were not invariably used - Professionals of the period, in particular, are frequently found without such stampings when it is pretty clear that they have not been re-framed at a later date (a factory service that the Company ceased to offer in the very late 'eighties)."
Tony continues: "The earlier stampings on the underside of the leather were simply 'batch codes', for quality and stock control purposes, and would have been well understood by the workforce at the time, although they were almost certainly never recorded. In the historic sense, they bear no relation to dates of production, and even the talents of Bletchley Park would be severely tested to produce any coherent pattern, I imagine - it would make the deciphering of the Enigma Code a 'walk in the park' in comparison, especially as there's now little chance of us capturing a submarine containing an undamaged Brooks Code Machine?"
The date codes are in the form of NN, the last two numerals of the year, and A for Jan-Mar, B for Apr - Jun, C for Jul - Sep, or D Oct - Dec. During the early part of the the 1958 - 1990 period, the dates codes were stamped (incised into the metal) in the middle of the cantle plate near the "Made in England" text. In the latter part of the period, the code was stamped between rivets 5 and 6 (i.e. on the right hand side as you sit on the saddle).
The current method of date coding Brooks saddles is a colored stamp on the underside of the saddle, with a number for the year surrounding a letter for the month."
The "
Evolution of Brooks Saddle Badges" is presented by
TheHeadbadge.com. It provides a rough way to date a Brooks saddle.
