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№ 606

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25 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£100

Clifton College Swimming Medal, 38mm., silver, obverse inscribed, ‘Clifton College Junior Swimming Competition won by G. S. White 1895’, reverse- engraved coat of arms within a wreath of laurel, with original ribbon and brooch bar, ‘1895’, good very fine £60-80

Attributed to George Stanley White, Second Baronet White of Bristol. Born 31 July 1882. Educated Clifton College. Member of the firm of George White and Company, of Bristol and Director of the Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd. He succeeded his father to the title in 1916. His father Sir George White, 1st Baronet, established the first manufactory of aeroplanes in England and was created a Baronet in 1904.

With copied research.