Sherlock Holmes

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Introduction
Issued in 1999, the model is sold at the Museum, right. With Holmes on his violin, a hubble bubble pipe and housekeeper Mrs Hudson’s drawing room, it is the first piece with metal lamps and railings.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) wrote as a medical student and at his unvisited eye clinic! He based Sherlock on Dr Joseph Bell, a pioneering forensic surgeon and tutor at Edinburgh University. The flawed hero was killed off, but returned after a public outcry having “pretended to be dead”. Crowds had demonstrated outside Conan Doyle’s home!

Built in 1815, 239 Baker Street was a lodging house from 1860-1934. Named 221B, Holmes’ rooms are recreated there. Due to renumbering in the 1930s and bombing in 1940-41, the real 221 is disputed. 

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Hazle Ceramics
Sherlock Holmes
on London Sherlock

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 Watson & Holmes by the original illustrator Sidney Paget (1860-1908). It was he who first put Sherlock in the deerstalker hat.

Penguin Classics cover with a dying hound. 

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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Almost all 60 tales are narrated by Holmes’ companion Dr John Watson. Short stories first appeared in The Strand magazine. The most famous case, of a spectral dog on a fog bound Dartmoor in Devon, was written after a friend relayed the local legend. It was published for Sherlock’s return in 1901-2.

 A watercolour print of 221 Baker Street as it may have looked in 1880.