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Marco Island Florida Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Cotton Tee - Black Logo

Marco Island Florida Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Cotton Tee - Black Logo

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The Marco Island tee, for the town that rises from a thousand years of shells. A classic unisex heavy cotton t-shirt with the Marco Island vintage retro logo on the chest in black: the default Marco Island shirt, and the one most people start with.

This is the everyday Marco Island shirt: medium-weight cotton that holds up to real washing, a crewneck that fits everyone, and a logo that reads as a crest rather than a billboard. Buy it for yourself, buy a second for the person who keeps saying they want one, and it ships free in the U.S.

A classic-fit unisex tee in medium-weight heavy cotton jersey. Crewneck, tubular construction, and taped shoulders for durability, with a DTG-printed design. Solids are 100% cotton; select heather and antique shades may use cotton–poly blends.

The Calusa built shell mounds here for centuries, Indian Hill among them at fifty-one feet, and in 1896 the Smithsonian’s Pepper-Hearst Expedition under Frank Hamilton Cushing pulled the six-inch carved-wood Key Marco Cat from the muck, one of the finest Pre-Columbian finds in North America. William Collier founded the village of Marco in 1870.

Clam and oyster canneries ran at Caxambas Pass from 1903 to 1947, the first bridge came in 1938, and Deltona opened the modern island in 1965. The largest of the Ten Thousand Islands, it has a six-mile crescent of sugar-white sand, among the widest beaches in Florida and some of the best shelling. That shell-strewn shore is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — MARCO ISLAND FL HEAVY COTTON TEE

Town: Marco Island, Florida

Founded: Village 1870; city 1997

Known for: The Key Marco Cat (1896); the largest of the Ten Thousand Islands; a six-mile sugar-sand crescent beach

Art: Marco Island vintage retro logo, black (printed)

Blank: Unisex heavy cotton tee, classic fit, crewneck, tubular construction, taped shoulders

Fabric: Solids 100% cotton; heather/antique shades cotton–poly

Print: DTG, black ink

Made to order in the USA


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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

What the brochures promised, the island delivered: a six-mile crescent of sugar-white sand, among the widest beaches in Florida, with shelling good enough to draw collectors from around the world. Marco is the largest of the Ten Thousand Islands — the maze of mangrove keys where the Gulf meets the Everglades — and the gateway to all of it: boat trips out through the islands, dolphins and roseate spoonbills, and the warm, shallow, almost-waveless water that makes the place feel like a long, lazy float.

When Ponce de León’s Spanish reached this coast in the early 1500s, they named the island La Isla de San Marco and met the Calusa, who fought them off; by the 1700s, war and disease had emptied the chiefdom. Centuries later the pioneers came. William T. Collier founded the village of Marco in 1870, and his son, Capt. Bill Collier, opened the Olde Marco Inn in 1896 — still serving guests today. For decades the island ran on clams and oysters, canned at Caxambas Pass and shipped north.

Why People Visit Marco Island

Marco Island rewards visitors who want wide white sand, warm shallow water, and shells underfoot, with a rare depth of history close by. Add the boat trips into the Ten Thousand Islands and the year-round Gulf sun, and the case makes itself.

Marco Island Florida Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the Florida alligator over Florida Territory Est. 1845