A private archive of Stanley Vivian Bacon the British gold medal winning wrestler from the 1908 London Olympic Games, being an extensive and rarely se

A private archive of Stanley Vivian Bacon the British gold medal winning wrestler from the 1908 London Olympic Games, being an extensive and rarely seen documentation of the career of an early Olympic Games gold medal winner and athlete, extensive mostly contained in a large album pasted with pictures, programmes, tickets identity cards, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera, pasted chronologically covering Bacon's career as a wrestler between 1904 and 1928, over 300 items in the album, of which 80+ are related to the Olympics in Athens 1906, London 1908, Stockholm 1912, Antwerp 1920, Paris 1924 & Amsterdam 1928, highlights including Bacon's competitor's card from Antwerp, further details are available on request; sold with a separate scrap book relating to the Stockholm Games of 1912, and a quantity of loose private photographs, also Army service papers, documents, magazines with content relating to Bacon etc. Stanley Bacon (1885-1952) won the gold medal at the 1908 London Olympic Games in the middleweight freestyle competition. He also competed at Stockholm in 1912 and Antwerp in 1920. He was still involved in wrestling at the Paris and Amsterdam Games of 1924 & 1928, latterly as a judge. Stanley Bacon was the eldest of five brothers who were all top-flight British wrestlers, whilst Edgar & Ernest Bacon also competed at Olympic level. Between them they accumulated 30 British Championship titles, Stanley half of these. By profession Stanley Bacon was a civil servant and an enthusiastic supporter of their sports club where he was diving and middleweight boxing champion, and played in the 1st XV at rugby.