Leonard Sigismund Baer 1905-1963
Gerald’s brother Leonard married Doris Hiller Holt and they had one son Anthony, 1938-2005, my mother’s first cousin. He was always considered a little strange and seemed to have had a sad life. Believe he made a fortune with Posseidon shares ??? and was a cricket fanatic with a well known collection of memorabilia. https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-baer-collection-melbourne-cricket-club/0ALCjhbKPSzwIw?hl=en
Died in Melbourne. Know my brother saw him here . Carolyn will investigate
A Doris L Baer, born 1904, is living Torquay with Dorothy R Baer/Hecht in 1939 Reg- Anthony could be the closed record!
The family solicitor saw Doris in Poole on 1982, the day before her sister in law, Dorothy Hecht Baer died. Doris was then living in Horsham
1963. Leonard Sigismund Baer died 19/4/1963- this from 1988 solicitor's latter
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Cricket memorabilia collector Anthony Baer at his home in London, October 1964. (Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Images) – photo very expensive to buy!
The Melbourne Cricket Club Museum came into existence in the Australian summer of 1968–1969 to house an outstanding gift by a young English stockbroker named Anthony Baer. His gift comprised over twelve hundred items pertaining to the game of cricket, including artwork, prints, books, manuscripts, bronzes, silverware, textiles, and porcelain. This gift introduced to Australia one of the most extensive, intriguing, and valuable collections of cricketana known, with items dating from the early seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Anthony Baer began collecting cricket-related items in London during his school years, and by the early 1960s his collection had outgrown his London apartment. The extent of this collection reflects not only Baer’s interest but also his rapport with London’s art and antique dealers, who notified him of any items of significance that appeared on the market. In the early 1960s Anthony Baer visited the MCC to watch an English-Australian Test cricket match. Such was his regard for the hospitality extended to visitors at the ground and for the prowess of the Australian cricketers that within two years of the Test match he offered his collection as an immediate gift to the MCC.
(source:chipstone.org)