He is an Australian mysterious Joe Winkler set out to solve.
After collecting a vintage university jacket that stood out in its local second -hand store, known as an “operating store”, I wanted to know where it came from.
“We really don’t have that kind of university -style jackets or whatever in Australia,” said Winkler, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. “The price was not too steep. And I bought it.”
Listen: Australia man intends to find the original owner of the second -hand jacket
Take in the afternoon8:29How a vintage university jacket in Ingersoll ended up in a second -hand store in Australia
Joe Winkler de Melbourne, Australia, won a unique finding: a jacket of letters from an Ingersoll Bromblal team. Host Matt Allen listens to the story of how Winkler tracked the origins of the jacket and also talks to Allan Judge, a teammate in that exact Bromblal team.
The jacket of the lyrics is made of yellow leather and Mohair Azul, and presents the name embroidered “Wally” in the chest, and the crest of a Bromblal club of the 1970s of Ingersoll, Ont.
“I had no idea what country it was or if it was real,” he said. “I had never heard of Bromblal.”
It turns out that Ingersoll is not too difficult to find. “There is only one ingersoll in the world, basically. Then, it reduced it quite easily. I discovered that it must have been of this city in Canada,” he said.
Winkler took his search for a step further and published in a Facebook group for the Ingersoll’s premises, a 16,000 km trip from where he bought the jacket. Once his publication was approved, he went to sleep and, with the difference in time, woke up to almost 100 comments.
There was much time for the family and friends of “Wally” to see the post and help solve the mystery that he once belonged to the late Wallace Clayton.
“Of everything people said, it seemed like a fantastic guy,” Winkler said. “It’s amazing to see it.”
“I was really surprised,” says Wally’s son
For Brad Clayton, see his father’s jacket appear on Facebook brought an avalanche of memories. “He was a good sure father,” he said. His father died in January 2011.
“I was very surprised to tell you the truth,” he said. He donated some of his father’s belongings to a second -hand good will store in Ingersoll after his father died. The jacket was too small for him or would probably have kept it, he said.
Remember his father playing Brobell on Sundays in the morning when he was young, and taking some beers with other players after the game ended. Once Brad turned 15, he joined the fun as a referee.
“It was a day for those guys to come out and have fun,” he said. “I thought it was important because I was arbitrated to these major guys and that was great.”
‘I enjoyed friendship as much as the game’
It is something that Allan Judge also remembers.
The 79 -year -old player of Ingersoll played Bromball with Wallace for years, even in 1977 and 1978, in the same team as Wally. The Bromblal Club had about 30 members.
“We would obtain new jackets probably every five or six years, and they all bought their own, so we could presume that we belong to the club,” Jutt said. “[We] He made many friends and enjoyed friendship as much as the game. “
“[We] He made many friends and enjoyed friendship as much as the game. “
“Wally Clayton was a great guy,” he added. “It’s gone now. Most boys of those years [are]”
Knowing that the jacket ended in Australia and that someone took the time to track their story is incredible, he said. “You wonder how something like that could happen.”
Listen: Wallace Clayton’s son “shocked” to see the resurgence jacket abroad
Take in the afternoon5:50The mystery of an Ingersoll’s Bromblal jacket is found in Australia continues
Host Matt Allen deepens how a Vintage Letterman jacket that once belonged to an Ingersoll Bromball player ended up in the hands of a second -hand buyer in Melbourne, Australia. Allen talks to the son of the jacket owner, Doug Clayton, as well as the director of Operations of Goodwill Ontario Great Lakes, Scott Louch, to assemble the pieces.
How Australia arrived is still a mystery, but there are some clues.
“I have a couple of probable ideas here,” said Scott Louch, Operations Director of Goodwill Industries. Ancient university style jackets are highly collectible, he said.
Scenario one: He was donated to Goodwill and sold in the store someone who visits Australia.
Scenario two: Most likely, a revenue has bought it in Goodwill, which appears on Ebay, and sold to someone in Australia, he said.
Scenario three: Also the possibility that Goodwill Online would sell it through its electronic commerce division and sent abroad.
“Those would be the most likely ways in which he would arrive in Australia,” Louch said. “We send ourselves worldwide every day, so it is certainly uncommon.”
For Brad, he believes that everything is “excellent”, knowing that someone else can use it and use it, a part of their family history.
