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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 847

The remarkable Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal to W. W. Waite, one of the founders of Waitrose

Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal, G.V.R., silver, by Spink & Son. (W. W. Waite. 30th. April 1928.), fitted with silver top riband bar, nearly extremely fine

Wallace Wyndham Waite was born in 1881, the son of a renowned civic engineer. Apprenticed to a grocer in Pontypool the day before his 13th birthday, he opened his own shop in Acton, London in 1904 alongside Arthur Rose and David Taylor. The three entrepreneurs rented 263 Acton High Street, the first store in what was to become the well-known supermarket chain Waitrose: Wallace and Arthur's surnames have remained together ever since. Waitrose was awarded its Royal Warrant by King George V in 1928; sold with copied research and correspondence from the John Lewis Partnership Heritage Centre.

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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£190