The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 29, July 14, 2002, Article 13

STILL MORE SHERLOCKIANA

  Dick Johnson writes: "Bob Fritsch could have added two
  very fine art medals to his exhibit of Sherlock Holmes
  numismatic items. In 1987 two California artists created
  Sherlock Holmes Art Medals: Alex Shagin and Marika
  Somogyi.

  Both medals have a portrait of the famed investigator.
  Shagin mentions Baker Street on the reverse (remember
  the number?) Somogyi employs an openwork keyhole
  for the portrait eye; it has been exhibited four times by
  AMSA, American Medallic Sculpture Association, and
  once at an international F.I.D.E.M. exhibit.

  I cataloged both Holmes medals for a Collectors' Auction
  Ltd auction of May 14, 1989, lots 334 and 354. Both
  were illustrated there."

  Bob Van Ryzin writes: "In reference to Bob Fritsch's
  comment in V.5 No. 28 July 7, 2002, The E-Sylum,
  concerning detailed references to Holmes and numismatics,
  I can offer the following:

  I know of at least one extensive study of numismatics in the
  Canon. It appears in Simpson's Sherlockian Studies by A.
  Carson Simpson, privately printed between 1953 and 1961
  in nine volumes.  In 1982, these volumes were compiled into
  book form by Magico Magazine, with an introduction by Isaac
  Asimov.  If memory serves me, original sets of the Simpson
  volumes were scarce even back in the 1980s.  The book I
  purchased was issued in an edition of 100 hardcover copies
  signed by Asimov and a trade version.

  Volumes 5, 6, and 7 feature a three-part series on the coins,
  paper money, medals and orders in the Canon. Each of these
  "parts" runs in the range of 40 pages, with detailed descriptions
  of the various numismatic items that may have been encountered
  as well as Conical references.  There's also a volume titled
  "Conical Philately."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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