The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 24, June 15, 2003, Article 13

WALTER GARRABRANT INFORMATION SOUGHT

  Roger Siboni writs: "I recently purchased and had restored
  Walter W. Garrabrant's original copy of Maris' "The Coins
  of New Jersey".  While I have been an avid collector of
  colonial coins and particularly New Jersey Coppers for some
  time, I have waited until I could purchase a copy of Maris'
  book with some interesting provenance.  Frankly, I have
  never heard of Walter Garrabrant, but what came with book
  fascinated me.

  It included two newspaper articles circa. 1935 discussing
  exhibits he arranged of the Fredrick Canfield collection of
  New Jersey Coppers housed within the New Jersey
  Historical Society.  It listed him as an authority and leading
  collector of New Jersey Coppers.  Additionally, it contained
  a series of rubbings of the Boyd Maris 4-C, 7-E  and 51-G.
  The 7-E notations suggest that he obtained them from the
  Lewis collection before they were sold to Boyd.  Each of
  these coins will likely be the top bid getters in the upcoming
  Ford auction. Also, it also worth mentioning that for over a
  decade, it has been near impossible to view the Canfield
  collection of New Jersey Coppers in the New Jersey
  Historical Society, let alone present an exhibit of them.

  So, I was hoping some of the readership might shed some
  light on Garrabrandt.    I do not ever recall hearing his name
  in the pedigree chain of any New Jersey Copper and yet in
  1935 he was a top collector.  He was chosen to arrange the
  exhibit for the Canfield  collection of the New Jersey Historical
  Society and he was tied into the collecting community enough to
  acquire rubbings of some of the rarest and finest New Jersey
  Coppers in existence.

  Is there another major New Jersey collection lurking out
  there we (I) don't know about?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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