Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/floreat-etona-reverso
Summary: Made for Unknown — an enduring mystery. It bears the arms and motto of Eton College — Floreat Etona, “may Eton flourish”. And it is a ladies’ model. Eton…
Updated: 2026-09-11
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Pièce Unique · 1933

# The “Floreat Etona” Reverso

Made for Unknown — an enduring mystery.

Enamelled crest

**Year**1933

**Craft**Enamelled crest

**Made for**Unknown — an enduring mystery

It bears the arms and motto of Eton College — *Floreat Etona*, “may Eton flourish”. And it is a ladies’ model. Eton admitted only male pupils, so the likeliest explanation is a gift from a pupil to a girlfriend, or a master to his wife. The archive has never established who owned it, which leaves open the far more romantic possibility the Yearbook itself entertains: that it belonged to the first female pupil at Eton, in the early 1930s.

Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 — “Reverso Confidential”

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