A Scion Society of The Baker Street Irregulars
Numismatists Do Not Fear Change
“Now we have the Sherlock Holmes test …” – A Scandal in Bohemia (SCAN) Editor’s Note: We are pleased to announce the return of The Inquisition to be a feature with each story of the month that we highlight. Please join me in welcoming your new Inquisitor, Karen A. Wilson, ASH, who is also the 100th… Continue Reading
“I shall be the Hans Sloane of my age” – The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (3GAR) Nathan Garrideb told Sherlock Holmes, “Why, I have the nucleus of a national collection. I shall be the Hans Sloane of my age.” It is quite likely that modern readers don’t know who Hans Sloane is. Hans Sloane… Continue Reading
“The story has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers …” – The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb (ENGR) When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had his stories published that would make up the Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, the stories were first printed in the United States in Colliers Weekly and in the Strand Magazine for the United Kingdom.… 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 taught twice a year in the Community Education Life Enrichment Program for a local community college. It is composed of… Continue Reading
“Now we have the Sherlock Holmes test …” – A Scandal in Bohemia (SCAN) Editor’s Note: We are pleased to announce the return of The Inquisition to be a feature with each story of the month that we highlight. Please join be in welcoming your new Inquisitor, Karen A. Wilson, ASH, who is also the 100th… Continue Reading
“… all the actors in the tragedy …” – The Adventure of the Carddboard Box (CARD) We are of the opinion that actor Louis Hector doesn’t get enough credit for being the first to portray Sherlock Holmes on televison or for his earlier portrayals of Holmes on the radio. Only one of the nearly 80… Continue Reading
“It was of such importance that I have never left it in my safe …” – The Adventure of the Second Stain (SECO) We’ve shared a few installments of Sherlocko The Monk, a comic strip drawn by Gus Mager from 1910 to 1913 in the Hearst newspapers of the era. We are pleased to share another of these… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – A Case of Identity (IDEN) FRIENDS WITH THINGS IN COMMON In this tale Watson refers to Holmes’s “position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout three continents.” Does this coincide with Watson’s 3 continents? Is this also, perhaps, evidence that… Continue Reading
“Sarasate plays at the St. James’s Hall this afternoon …” – The Red Headed League (REDH) One of our very first posts on this website was about the Spanish 1994 10 Peseta coin honoring Pablo Sarasate, the noted violinst mentioned in The Red-Headed League. We have now come across two other items featuring Sarasate. The first is… Continue Reading
