TON MERCKX - COLLECTING TEAM JERSEYS FOR OVER 30 YEARS

When a man named Merckx emails us from The Netherlands and tells us that he likes our website and that he has a collection of 2,300 plus cycling jerseys, we have to pay attention, right?

“I am 55 years old, I'm from Eindhoven in The Netherlands.  

“I used to be a baker, later on postman and the last eight years I've been working in a warehouse at the European base of the English company Nisbets who make kitchen equipment.  

“I'm not married, but I have a very nice girlfriend, my dad was also a fanatical cyclist in the 50s & 60s, he was a baker too. At the age of 30 in 1959 he turned professional as an individual pro. 

“Dutch amateurs from above the age of 30 could not race in Belgium; that's why there were so many Dutch individual pro cyclist above 30 years-old in the 60's, 70's and 80's.”

RARE COLLECTION

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