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An Update On July’s HolmeWork Assignment: A Nicaraguan Stamp and the Sherlock Holmes Medal

An Update On July’s HolmeWork Assignment: A Nicaraguan Stamp and the Sherlock Holmes Medal

” … very energetic inquiries are being made …” – The Adventure of The Noble Bachelor (NOBL) A few weeks ago we posted about the January 5, 1973 dinner meeting of the Baker Street Irregulars and the silver Sherlock Holmes medal that was presented to honor the recent Holmesian stamp issued by Nicaragua. Peter E. Blau,… Continue Reading

TFG Schedules Annual Meeting in Chicago for August 11, 2015

TFG Schedules Annual Meeting in Chicago for August 11, 2015

“It’s more than a year since I left him …” – The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (ILLU) The Fourth Garrideb will celebrates its one year anniversary by holding its first annual meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 during the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money. This will be a dinner… Continue Reading

Three Medals of The Speckled Band of Boston

Three Medals of The Speckled Band of Boston

“It is a nice household …” – The Adventure of The Speckled Band (SPEC) Photos by Richard Olken The Speckled Band of Boston, one of the oldest scions of the Baker Street Irregulars, issued medals at each of their annual meetings in April 2009, 2010 and 2011. Stadri Emblems made the three medals for the SBB,… Continue Reading

The Speckled Band of Boston Celebrates 75th Anniversary

The Speckled Band of Boston Celebrates 75th Anniversary

“It was the band! The speckled band!” – The Adventure of The Speckled Band (SPEC) April 24, 2015 at the Tavern Club, in an alley off Boylston Street opposite the Common, was held the 75th anniversary dinner of the Speckled Bank of Boston. The officers, Keeper of the Band Daniel Posnansky, Herpeton Dean W. Fairbrother,… Continue Reading

SherloCON 2016 Announces Dates and Medal Design

SherloCON 2016 Announces Dates and Medal Design

“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.” – The Adventure of The Final Problem (FINA) Deutsche Sherlock Holmes Gesellschaft, a Sherlock Holmes society based in Germany, has annouced the date of it’s next biannual conference, SherloCon.  The 2016 version will be held April 22-24, 2016 in Saarbrücken and the conference theme will be the 125th… Continue Reading

The 1980 Sherlockian Enterprises Medal

The 1980 Sherlockian Enterprises Medal

“You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” – A Study In Scarlet (STUD) Those immortal words are remembered on a bronze medal that was struck in late 1980, for the centennial of Holmes and Watson meeting that would be celebrated the following year. Sherlockian Enterprises had 221 (numbered on the edge) medals struck featuring Janice Skrzyniecki’s… Continue Reading

The Three Garridebs of Westchester County’s Lapel Pin

The Three Garridebs of Westchester County’s Lapel Pin

“Well, if you can lay your hands upon a Garrideb, there’s money in it.” – The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (3GAR) A few days after publishing our post about the Three Garridebs of Westchester County, we became aware that the group had earlier issued a lapel pin with a numismatic twist. The pin features a… Continue Reading

The Three Garridebs of Westchester County

The Three Garridebs of Westchester County

“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

More Thank Yous!

More Thank Yous!

It’s time for us to again thank a few people for their assistance in getting the word out about us. Once again, we need to thank Wayne Homren, editor of The E-Sylum for the Numismatic Bibliomania Society, for his kind words and reprinting parts of our post on the Scandalous Bohemian medals. Check out the issue here.… Continue Reading

The Highly Irregular Shilling

The Highly Irregular Shilling

In the John H. Watson Society’s first monograph, Coin of the Canonical Realm, Nicholas Utechin has provided us with a fascinating look at the relative values of current-day dollars and pounds compared to the pounds and shillings of Holmes’s day.  Of course, any devotee of the Canon is familiar with shillings, the coins with which… Continue Reading