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[Takingabreak]

The toptube gear boss is brazed on under the dawes greenyblue flecked paint.
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The double cable stop is exactly that, but matching the style of the rear triple, which is as per catalogue.

I was wondering if there was a standard gear lever mount under there or if someone had screwed it into the tube

I guess at some point you will strip it down and be able to see inside the bottom bracket shell or steerer to see if the paint is all original.

I really have never seen another Edge like it

 

[bikeworkshop]

I was wondering if there was a standard gear lever mount under there or if someone had screwed it into the tube

This was exactly my concern having just bought it from a photo - the app had been ripped off, and a boss crudely attached with a nut and bolt
Luckily not. It looks original.

As for a mod,:
It's slightly harder to think why you'd remove the triple cable stop, source another one to match (rather than modify the one you already have), then braze a gear boss on there...

But only slightly.

Of course when dawes still made bikes in , they might well have knocked up some pre- production models to see how the market or management took to them.

A toptube gear boss is not an original idea in 1993 -
As @Rod_Saetan pointed out earlier.

 

[Takingabreak]

Pre production model did cross my mind. You only have another 99 to find and you will complete the set