Merckx owners thread

^this. Lugs are biggest giveaway, especially around the bb. Also, no braze ons for shifters or cable guides, and primitive looking rear dropouts.
Braze ons or the rear dropouts are no giveaway for a lower end frame. Many very good French frames used Simplex rather than Campa dropouts. Braze-ons? Back in the 1960s and into the 1970s braze-ons were viewed by many as a potential source of failure with thin walled steel. Some of the finest frames came without brazed-on bits. Campa, Hueret and others made nice chromed bolt-on cable guides and shifter mounts.
That said I think its a more mundane Kessel.