A Scion Society of The Baker Street Irregulars
Numismatists Do Not Fear Change
“Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.” – A Study In Scarlet (STUD) The author of this post also did not know who Thomas Carlyle was when I first read A Study in Scarlet. Then again, I was only 10 or 11 years old… Continue Reading
“You don’t happen to have a Raphael or a first folio Shakespeare without knowing it?” – The Adventure of The Three Gables (3GAB) With the advances that are being made in digitizing older newspapers and magazines, it is amazing what we can now discover on the internet. While doing a recent search, I came across… Continue Reading
“If you have a fancy to see your name in the next honours list…” – The Adventures of the Bruce Partington Plans (BRUC) In the 1988 British comedy film Without a Clue, we have Michael Caine portraying Sherlock Holmes and Ben Kingsley as Dr. Watson. Noted film critic Roger Ebert offered up this review of the… Continue Reading
…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) Is it coincidence that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has Sherlock Holmes refusing a knighthood during the time period that he himself was informed of his impending knighthood? Doyle’s pending… Continue Reading
“I shall be the Hans Sloane of my age.” – The Adventures of the Three Garridebs (3GAR) Upon learning of his possible share of $5 million dollars from the estate of Alexander Hamilton Garrideb, reclusive collector Nathan Garrideb was ecstatic that he could form the nucleus of a new national collection and be the next Hans Sloane.… Continue Reading
“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
…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
Editor’s Note: Abbey National Building Society occupied Abbey House 1932-2005 on the site of what would have been considered to be 221B Baker Street and employed a secretary for many years to answer the correspondence of Sherlock Holmes. After more than three centuries, the humble check is set to become a historic relic after British… Continue Reading
“They were paying a pound a day each…” – A Study In Scarlet (STUD) Hopefully, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman will be filming yet another season of Sherlock for the BBC in 2017. If that is the case, we might get to see one of them spend one of the new 12-sided One Pound coin that… Continue Reading
“She stood grandly defiant, a queenly figure…” – The Adventure of the Second Stain (SECO) Earlier, we had posted that a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II would be unveiled in 2015 and reviewed the previous four portraits of Her Majesty that has graced British coins since 1952. On March 2nd, the Royal Mint unveiled… Continue Reading