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GEORGE WALTON PHOTO IDENTIFICATION
Last week Mark Borckardt submitted two photos of 1913 Liberty Nickel owner George Walton, asking for identification assistance.
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Dave Alexander writes: I am guessing that the group photo may be Walton with the leaders of the Blue Ridge Numismatic Association The group of three is more explicable, however. Note the name "Pass.a.Grill Beach" on the wall!. The lad on the right is the young Grover C. Criswell, soon to be "the youngest elected mayor in the U.S." The Florida Gulf town was later renamed Saint Petersburg Beach Tom DeLorey writes: The person on the right in the second Walton photo looks like a young Grover Criswell. Considering the Florida bond they are holding up, this seems plausible. Ken Bressett writes: I am pretty sure that the man on the right in the second photo is Grover Criswell, Jr . And I suspect that this was taken sometime around 1955. Dennis Forgue writes: The George Walton photo has Clarence (center) and Grover Criswell (right) in the photo The wall sign behind Pass-A-Grill (Florida) is where the Criswell’s lived and Grover was later Mayor, and the Criswell Money Museum was located there.
Looks like we have a consensus on Grover Criswell, and a likely match for his brother Clarence. Thanks, everyone.
-Editor
To read an article by Fred Reed on the Criswells in Coins Magazine, see: The Richest Man in Confederate Money (numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=7819)
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
GEORGE WALTON PHOTO IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n04a10.html)
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