Lot 4880

Description

Canterbury Grand Stand, 1863 pass, uniface, struck in silver (32mm), no maker, reverse inscribed 'No.7/W.D.Barnard, Esq.' (G.8; TMR.p56-60). Old grey tone, good extremely fine and extremely rare.

William David Barnard, auctioneer, valuer and general agent, Cashel Street, Christchurch, a Jewish emigrant from Birmingham, was elected a member of the first Christchurch Borough Council in March 1862, serving until December 1866. Apart from co-owning the White Hart Hotel, Barnard held regular weekly sales of horses and livestock and his horse repository was the venue for a number of public functions. In March 1867 he was one of the founders of the Canterbury Brewing, Malting & Distilling Co but he suffered a huge financial loss in a fire in December 1870 because his premises were uninsured.

With research.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 61B, 3-4 August 1999 (lot 1090), [the W.J.Noble Collection, Part II] and purchased from S.E.Schwer in 1984 and Dix Noonan Webb Sale, 12-13 December 2016 (lot 3011)