The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 28, July 7, 2002, Article 11

MORE SHERLOCKIANA

  Dave Bowers notes: "Quite a few years ago I owned the
  original manuscript. for "The Three Garridebs," in the hand
  of  A. Conan Doyle. I would visit it occasionally in my safe
  deposit vault room at the bank. Later I sold it."

  Bob Fritsch writes: "I know of no detailed references about
  Holmes and Numismatics, although Ed Rochette has had a
  project on this subject pending for several years.  In 1999,
  I won Second Place for my exhibit "Numismatica
  Sherlockiana".  It contained items I had discovered over the
  years. Here is what was shown:

  -- The 1994 8-coin set from Gibraltar, KM285-KM292.
      1 Crown, CuNi.  Also issued in sterling

  -- One Baker Street Shilling in wood, issued by "Porlock"
      (yours truly) of the Hounds of the Internet, dated 1995.

  -- Seven Elongated Coins, four of them by Frank Brazzell
      (cent, nickel, dime, quarter) with the caption THE GAMES'
      AFOOT.  Two Elongateds featuring Holmes with a pipe,
      and one without the pipe.  Roller unknown.

  -- Three Mardi Gras Doubloons with Holmes worked into
      a complicated design, by Blaine Kern Artists.  The Krewes
      issuing the doubloons were Endymion (1982), Alla (1983),
      and Caesar (1993).

  -- An commemorative struck on a cent-sized planchet
      celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Holmes story,
      'A Study in Scarlet'.   I  know nothing about this piece except
      that I have one, but who did it and where is a mystery."

  Christopher Eimer writes: "The ongoing correspondence in
  The E-Sylum relating to Sherlock Holmes, and in particular
  Alan Luedeking's request for numismatic references in today's
  issue, reminds me of a medal that I purchased many years ago,
  which is said to illustrate a scene from a SH mystery.

  The medal is silver, uniface, and measures 95 mm. (3.75 inches)
  in diameter, and can be dated to c.1890-1900. It shows a
  landscape in which a policeman, accompanied by two other
  men (detectives?) run towards a lake, in the foreground, in
  which can be seen two men.

  The manner of dress and the atmosphere conjured by the
  scene is certainly redolent of a Sherlock Holmes mystery,
  and I have never had reason to doubt the attribution.  I had
  hoped that after all these years, I would by chance come
  across a print or book illustration relating to this medallic
  image, but that has not been the case.

  However, the current correspondence in The Asylum raises
  the chance that this image may well come to be identified.
  I will e-mail an image of the medal to any subscriber who is
  interested in seeing it."

  [Those wishing a copy of the image can reach Mr. Eimer
   at  art@christophereimer.co.uk. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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