Our online shop provides over 6000 original vintage doublets for sale.
The actual collection is not for sale.
The Museum of Swiss Bicycle License Plates displays the world’s largest and most complete collection of Swiss bicycle license plates, issued between 1893 and 1988. The proceeds from the sale of the duplicates will be used by the non-profit association to maintain this website and to complete the documentation “the history of Swiss bicycle license plates 1892-2011“.
The aim of our museum is to provide the public with the most complete documentation possible of Swiss bicycle license plates. In order to achieve this goal, we depend on cooperation with other collectors.
Our story deals in detail with the question of who invented the bicycle license plate. In any case, Switzerland can claim that no other country in the world has developed such creative diversity in the design of bicycle license plates.
Bicycles were only permitted on public roads with this official license plate. The first plates were coined in 1893, the last in 1988. Some of the older signs can no longer be found. Even out of the most recent issues there are probably no more than 500 surviving specimens in any Canton (State).
Their rarity, the year they were pressed, their legendary design, the seemingly rather peculiar idea of their founders in 1892 and the associated Swissness have turned the former basic commodity into a cult object, as a personal birthday gift and a special souvenir.
Every plate has discovered a part of Switzerland with its bicycle and has its own unique history and little secret.
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Authenticity Certificate: We confirm that every bicycle license plate is an original which was manufactured on behalf of the Swiss authorities.
