A Scion Society of The Baker Street Irregulars
Numismatists Do Not Fear Change
“The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster.” – A Study In Scarlet (STUD) With that comment, within the first two hundred words of STUD, we are given a strong viewpoint of Dr Watson’s regarding his participation in the Second Anglo-Afghanistan War of 1878 – 1880.… Continue Reading
“He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web …” – The Adventure of The Final Problem (FINA) Since Sherlock Holmes describes the Napoleon of Crime, Professor Moriarty, as a spider, it’s time for the dreaded spiders on coins post. The Perth Mint stuck these 1 ounce .999 Silver dollar coins for… Continue Reading
“… the last words in which I shall ever record …” – The Adventure of The Final Problem (FINA) We are pleased to share this recording of the January 18, 1933 NBC radio broadcast of Murder by Proxy. Edith Meiser adapted the script from Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Final Problem. This is the earliest known surviving recording of any Sherlock Holmes… 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 composed… Continue Reading
“No living man could tell a Prescott from a Bank of England, and if I hadn’t put him out he would have flooded London with them.” – The Adventure of The Three Garridebs (3GAR) During the 1961 – 1962 television season, United Production Artists (UPA) created 130 episodes of The Dick Tracy Show for syndication. Each of these… Continue Reading
“My life is spent in one long effort to escape …” – The Adventure of The Red-Headed League (REDH) On Monday, May 2, Fox will begin showing the television series Houdini and Doyle to American audiences. Michael Weston plays the role of Harry Houdini and Stephen Mangan portrays Arthur Conan… Continue Reading
REBEKAH TAFT IS both a great neighbor and a good friend. Miss Taft was born in Colorado Springs in 1912, and the home she grew up in was on land adjacent to the headquarters of the American Numismatic Association, where the ANA’s neighbor, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, now is located. She has devoted… Continue Reading
Seventeen thoughts for further ponderance of the case at hand – The Final Problem (FINA) THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND … WAIT A MINUTE! A still-bereaved Watson writes: “My hand has been forced, however, by the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty defends the memory of his brother, and I have no choice but… Continue Reading
“… all were equally puppets in his hands.” – The Adventure of The Solitary Cyclist (SOLI) Your editor is of the age that he grew up with the television show Sesame Street when it first started on Public Broadcasting stations in the late 1960’s. Oscar the Grouch was my favorite character, but I do remember seeing a… Continue Reading
“Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, MD, Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid.” – The Problem of Thor Bridge (THOR) Watson’s Tin Box, a BSI scion that meets in Columbia, Maryland, shares… Continue Reading