A Scion Society of The Baker Street Irregulars
Numismatists Do Not Fear Change
“… I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha of the agony column.” – The Valley of Fear (VALL) When I first started collecting coins, I was very intrigued when I could find ephemera (advertising, invoices, order forms, etc.) related to the items in my collection. Not much has changed for me over the… Continue Reading
A few weeks back, we published Ed Rochette’s 1995 syndicated column featuring the Pobjoy Mint releasing a series of coins commemorating the Return of Sherlock Holmes. Twenty-four different coins were struck in 3 different metals with 8 different designs. We have photographs of the 8 cupro-nickel Crowns and the 8 .925 fine sterling silver coins.… Continue Reading
“We have had some dramatic entrances…” – The Adventure of the Priory School (PRIO) On November 27, 1937, the National Broadcasting Company aired The Adventures of the Three Garridebs, during field tests before actual television service would start, from their Radio City studio in New York. Louis Hector, having played Holmes on the radio for the previous… Continue Reading
“Have you ever heard the name of Garrideb?” – The Adventure of The Three Garridebs (3GAR) We are not the only group that takes our name from The Three Garridebs. In Westchester County, New York, there is an older group that calls themselves The Three Garridebs. The following story of their group is taken from their… Continue Reading
“‘Data! Data! Data!‘ he cried impatiently. ‘I can’t make bricks without clay.’” – The Adventures of the Copper Beeches (COPP) This column is composed of material (Data!) developed for a short course called Appreciating Sherlock Holmes that I teach twice a year in the Community Education Life Enrichment Program for a local community college. It is… Continue Reading
…was the latter end of June, 1902, shortly after the conclusion of the South African War. – The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (3GAR) By the seventh sentence of The Three Garridebs, Dr. Watson references the end of the Boer War to date the story. The Literary Agent, Arthur Conan Doyle, had written two works about the conflict… Continue Reading
“I remember the date very well, for it was in the same month that Holmes refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described.” – The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (3GAR) Holmes, I can’t believe that you would refuse a knighthood. Few have done more than you in serving royalty and persons of high… Continue Reading
“By the way, it is curious that you should have come from Topeka. I used to have a correspondent – he is dead now – old Dr. Lysander Starr, who was Mayor in 1890.” – The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (3GAR) With that quote, Sherlock Holmes would confirm that John Garrideb, aka Killer Evans, had… Continue Reading
We are proud to present the first of our Inquisitor, Denny Dobry’s, killer quizzes – each quiz will be on the featured story of the month. This month is The Three Garridebs. How do we know that Killer Evans was a successful gambler? To a reader unfamiliar with the American west, he may think that a… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Three Garridebs (3GAR) . . . We are glad to start off our monthly discussions of a story from the Canon with Brad Keefauver’s The 17 Steps. We encourage readers to discuss these items in the comments section below and we look forward to having… Continue Reading