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Welcome To America — 125 Years On

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Remember that time when the creator of Sherlock Holmes <a href="http://shoso.ninja-web.net/Shoso-inBulletin/vol5BLAU.html">played golf with Rudyard Kipling</a>, spent an afternoon drinking with Indiana's greatest poet, and lost a collar-button moments before he had to go on stage?<br />
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Not all on the same day, of course, but all during the same ten-week adventure, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1894 lecture tour of North America. It came just months after Holmes's supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, and at every stop, from Brattleboro to Milwaukee, Conan Doyle faced eager questions from reporters and the public: <b><i>will there ever be more Sherlock Holmes stories for us?</i></b><br />
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In a free-for-all environment without copyright protection, American publishers had already started pirating ACD's early books, and after the tour they came out with <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/11/episode-133-sherlock-holmes-collection.html#.XEEwHFxKjb0">dozens more editions</a>, especially of <i>The Sign of the Four</i>.<br />
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Quite possibly these cheap editions, rife with typographical errors, and the publicity Conan Doyle generated during and after his tour did as much to make the detective a permanent giant of popular culture as did William Gillette's play five years later.<br />
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Because Conan Doyle lectured almost every night in a different city, Sherlockians across a quarter of the continent have a chance to stand where the great man once stood: New York, of course, and New Rochelle; Toronto and Niagara Falls; Philadelphia and Baltimore; Cincinnati and Toledo. One city at least already has a plaque marking Conan Doyle's stop there: Indianapolis, where the Illustrious Clients erected it in 1994.<br />
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The tour ran from early October to early December 1894, which means that its 125th anniversary will arrive in a few months, and there are ample opportunities for quasquicentenary celebrations.<br />
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More than 30 years ago, using detailed research in newspaper files and other contemporary sources, I reconstructed the day-to-day story of Conan Doyle's 1894 tour in the book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-America-Mr-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/0889241848">Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, which was published in 1987 by Dundurn Press of Toronto. It was pleasantly received by Conan Doyle scholars at the time, but it has long been out of print.<br />
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I'm delighted to announce that <i>Welcome to America</i> is about to appear in a new edition published by <a href="http://wildsidepress.com/authors-r/redmond-christopher/">Wildside Press</a>. The 1987 chapters will be unchanged, as will the extensive source notes, and the reconstructed text of "Readings and Reminiscences," the lecture Conan Doyle gave to audiences in town after town.<br />
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There will be a new introduction pointing to some of the research that has been done since 1987 adding to scholars' knowledge of the 1894 tour, but that new material is not my work and will not be incorporated into the main narrative. I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere readers <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/06/grave-matters.html">have already learned about one chapter</a> in the book that needs correcting, the one describing Conan Doyle's visit to the grave of Edgar Allan Poe — a touching incident that probably never took place.<br />
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Please watch for announcements about <i>Welcome to America</i>, and look forward to reading about Conan Doyle's partying with the young athletes of Toledo, his testy remarks about anti-British sentiment in parts of the United States, his visit to Cooper's Cave at Glens Falls, and the six-year-old who whacked him in the head with a stuffed toy.<br />
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Welcome To America — 125 Years On

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Episode 160: Adapting Sherlock Holmes

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Baker Street Elementary — Presently With an Exclamation of Satisfaction

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The Baker Street Irregulars Weekend is just wrapping up in New York, where the Irregulars and other Sherlockians have spent eating and drinking their way through Midtown.<br />
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Each year, we gather to celebrate the birthday of Sherlock Holmes, which traditionally has been marked as January 6. But it leads us to wonder: would Sherlock Holmes have celebrated his own birthday?<br />
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The master logician, to whom things like roses were not a necessity, but an extra, might not have believed that the anniversary of his own existence was something that needed celebrating. However, in his days at Baker Street Elementary, you can rest assured that he hadn't yet matured into the 20-something that he was when he and Watson first met...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Presently With an Exclamation of Satisfaction

“bursting into an explosion of laughter” [STUD] The Baker Street Irregulars Weekend is just wrapping up in New York, where the Irre...

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I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Is Now on Spotify

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Those who have been around our site for some time know that we have a show on which we interview notable Sherlockians. It's called I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere (go figure!) and it's like <i><a href="https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/" target="_blank">Fresh Air</a></i> for Sherlock Holmes fans.<br />
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We release two interview episodes each month, on the 15th and 30th, and since our <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose01" target="_blank">very first episode</a> in June 2007, we've made it available on traditional podcast outlets. This initially included only <a href="http://bit.ly/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank">iTunes</a>, but over the years has expanded to pretty much wherever you can get podcasts, namely: <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL2loZWFyb2ZzaGVybG9jay5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw%3D%3D">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://play.radiopublic.com/i-hear-of-sherlock-everywhere-WRjkZW">RadioPublic</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/i-hear-of-sherlock-everywhere?refid=stpr">Stitcher</a>, <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-I-Hear-of-Sherlock-Everywh-27577121/">iHeartRadio</a> and <a href="http://www.spreaker.com/user/ihearofsherlock">Spreaker</a>.<br />
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Today we're pleased to share that I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere is now available on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/30WtRn1mnXfAtX7YaeRY5Y?si=0z1oIxvsT8-FZUhLFoYFmg" target="_blank">Spotify</a>.<br />
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Previously, we were prevented from being on this platform because our show didn't air frequently enough. The guidelines indicated that shows needed to daily or weekly to be considered for Spotify. Which meant that our other show, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6SF8y5sXSfWPBnH2W7WmKc?si=bg7M8Xb2TGW6VR5aeWwowQ" target="_blank">Trifles</a>, a weekly discussion of elements in the Sherlock Holmes stories, was immediately accepted.<br />
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Thanks to our hosting site Libsyn, who made the integration possible, you're now able to stream or download our main <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/30WtRn1mnXfAtX7YaeRY5Y?si=dXJviaw5Q2uqPzkEM7sI_Q" target="_blank">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere show on Spotify</a>.<br />
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I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Is Now on Spotify

"we had gained a spot" [CREE] Those who have been around our site for some time know that we have a show on which we intervie...

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Gifts for Supporters of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere and Trifles

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Over the course of the holiday season, some watchers on Facebook may have seen images of an I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere mug pop up from time to time.<br />
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These were gifts from the creators of the show to our patrons from 2018 who supported the show to a certain level throughout the year.<br />
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Because of how well they were received, we decided to create a more formal set of tiers for our supporters so you can help keep this site and the shows (both <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseshows" target="_blank">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> and <a href="http://sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles</a>) going.<br />
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Here are a few shots from some satisfied patrons:<br />
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The generous support from listeners and readers helps us to pay for things like: website hosting fees, email distribution, sound file hosting, advertising, equipment replacement, software, music and sound effects, research, interview costs, transcripts, and so on.<br />
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The show has been a hobby for Burt and Scott since July of 2007 (the site for Scott since August of 2005), and they have self-funded it, along with the help of sponsors like <a href="http://wessexpress.com/" target="_blank">Wessex Press</a> and <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/the-baker-street-journal/" target="_blank">The Baker Street Journal</a></i>.<br />
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But it's readers and listeners like you who really make it possible. And we wanted to show you how much we appreciate it.<br />
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The following rewards are available for supporters of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere and Trifles, via <a href="http://patreon.com/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank">Patreon</a> and PayPal. Our preference is that you use Patreon, because of the tracking of patrons and rewards there, but please do what feels most comfortable to you.<br />
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Don't leave a Second Stain on that coffee table! Protect it with your IHOSE or Trifles coasters. This set of four cork coasters is available for our supporters beginning at the <b>$15</b> per month level.<br />
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Pillow</h3>
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Happy 165th Birthday, Sherlock Holmes

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Today is January 6th and that marks the date on which we traditionally celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday.<br />
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We say "traditionally," because there is no definitive statement of his actual date of birth in the Canon, but beginning with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morley">Christopher Morley</a>, the date of January 6th has become the de facto accepted date for Holmes' birthday. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons.<br />
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Of all of the quotes in the Canon, William Shakespeare was the most oft-quoted author. There is but one Shakespearean play that Holmes quotes twice: <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743482778?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743482778">Twelfth Night</a><img border="0" src="https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.assoc-amazon.com%2Fe%2Fir%3Ft%3Dthebakerstree-20%26l%3Das2%26o%3D1%26a%3D0743482778&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" /></i>. In <i>The Sign of the Four</i>, Holmes concludes, "All is well that ends well." This is from from Act IV, Scene 4. And in "The Empty House," Holmes states "'Journeys end in lovers meetings,' as the old play says," from Act II, Scene 3.<br />
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The reason the date was chosen is that in Christianity, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6">January 6th</a> is the Feast of the Epiphany, or officially the twelfth day of Christmas. I suppose if we were being truly technical about it, the twelfth night of Christmas would fall on January 5th...<br />
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In addition, William S. Baring-Gould in his <a href="http://amzn.to/14hLF8i"><i>The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, posited that because Holmes was a little cranky on the morning of January 7th - the date on which <i>The Valley of Fear</i> began - he had a hangover, induced by birthday celebrations the evening prior.<br />
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And why 165? Scholars have fixed the year of Sherlock Holmes's birth to 1854 by virtue of a line in "His Last Bow" when he was described as "a tall gaunt man of sixty."<br />
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Happy 165th Birthday, Sherlock Holmes

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Remembering David Hammer, BSI

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David L. Hammer, BSI ("Major-General Stoner") passed away in Newton, Iowa on December 27, 2018 at the age of 89. He was a prominent attorney and a major contributor to Sherlockian scholarship. David received his investiture in the <a href="http://bakerstreetirregulars.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars</a> in 1986.<br />
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His legal career spanned five decades, and according to all who knew him, he was a tireless worker and researcher. His work ethic spilled over into his interest in Sherlock Holmes as well. He chronicled his career in a memoir titled <i>For the Record: My Name is Hammer</i>.<br />
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One particular anecdote from the chapter "Biting Truth" illustrates David's approach. In court, his client indicated that David had coached him on what to say. Hammer recalled:<br />
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"I saw my new law license slipping away. The judge leaned forward with a very interested look on his face. The witness said, 'He said above all to tell the truth, recognizing that if the truth bit the other lawyer on his rear he wouldn't recognize it.' [The jury] laughed uproariously, and I knew the case was won."</blockquote>
Similarly, David captured his adventures as a Sherlockian publisher in <i>The Game is Underfoot! The Memoir of a Sherlockian Publisher</i>. Hammer founded Gasogene Press in the early 1980s and had friendships with authors, collectors and editors like Jack Tracy, John Bennett Shaw, and Julian Wolff.<br />
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Gasogene Press published dozens of books, including Hammer's own series of Sherlockian travel guides such as <i>The Game Is Afoot</i>, <i>For the Sake of the Game</i>, <i>The Worth of the Game</i> (all travel guides to England), <i>To Play the Game</i> (North America), <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/dangerousgame.html" target="_blank">A Dangerous Game</a></i> (Europe), and <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/deepgame.html" target="_blank">A Deep Game</a></i>, (London). In addition to David's many works, Gasogene Press published highly sought after works such as Susan Rice's <i>A Compound of Excelsior</i> and William Goodrich's <i>The New Good Old Inde</i>x.<br />
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Eventually, David sold Gasogene Press to <a href="http://wessexpress.com/" target="_blank">Wessex Press</a>, where it became Gasogene Books, an imprint of Wessex Press.<br />
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We simply don't have the space to publish (or the the time to curate) all of David's works. Fortunately, there are others who have done so: in particular, Prabook has <a href="https://prabook.com/web/david_lindley.hammer/33142" target="_blank">a comprehensive listing of David's legal and Sherlockian writings</a>. George Vanderburg's <a href="http://www.batteredbox.com/davidhammer/index.htm" target="_blank">Battered Silicon Dispatch Box</a> has many of David's books available, and <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/catalog.html" target="_blank">Wessex Press</a> has some of the more seminal works.<br />
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Hammer was widely read, having come from a household that included a mother who was on the board of the local library and a member of the Book of the Month Club. As a result, David disdained the prescribed course readings in college and instead read whatever college texts he was interested in.<br />
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In an interview by Gael Stahl for the <a href="http://www.nashvillescholars.net/davidhammer.html" target="_blank">Nashville Scholars of the Three Pipe Problem</a>, Hammer recalled his high hopes for some stimulating intellectual discourse in the legal profession that were quickly dashed:<br />
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"Most lawyers belong to a rather dull group. It's the unusual one who has an interest outside of the law. And if the interest is intensive, as matters that are literary or philosophical usually are, you don't find lawyers there. I remember I came back home at Christmas after my first six months in the practice of law, and my father asked me if I had any disappointments. And I said, 'Yes, Dad, I do, just two. One is the bench and the other is the bar.' I think I would still say that 40 years later."</blockquote>
By now we hope you're catching on to David's dry sense of humor. In <a href="http://www.nashvillescholars.net/DHammer-pt2.html" target="_blank">Part 2 of his interview</a> with Stahl, he continues to show it, recounting his very first BSI Dinner:<br />
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At Hammer's table were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banesh_Hoffmann" target="_blank">Banesh Hoffmann</a> on his right, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose103" target="_blank">Al Rosenblatt</a> across from him, and a man with mutton-chop sideburns on his left. Hammer asked him what he did.<br />"I'm an author."<br />"So am I," said Hammer, proud of having just had his first book published about Holmes.<br />"How many books have you written?<br />"264 as of Tuesday, 267 by next week.<br />"Should I know your name?" (General laughter ensued.)<br />"You should, if you are a living American," said Isaac Asimov, one of the most distinguished of the Irregulars. </blockquote>
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To get a true sense of the spirit and accomplishments of David Hammer, and his talent as a raconteur, we recommend that you read through <a href="http://www.nashvillescholars.net/davidhammer.html" target="_blank">both</a> <a href="http://www.nashvillescholars.net/DHammer-pt2.html" target="_blank">parts</a> of that interview above.<br />
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David and his first wife Audrey married in 1953 and traveled to every continent together. She predeceased him in 2011. Following that, he reconnected with Carol Soderblom, whom he had known since grade school, and soon the two were married. Sadly, Carol passed away on December 29, just two days after David.<br />
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The Sherlockian world has lost a giant. All who knew him were the richer for it.<br />
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Remembering David Hammer, BSI

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The Curious Case of the New Yorker Cover

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The 2018 year-end issue of <i>The New Yorker</i> caught the attention of many people. But Sherlockians in particular were alerted to the presence of Sherlock Holmes in the form of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.<br />
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It's not often that Sherlock Holmes graces the cover of a magazine, and certainly not one of the stature of <i>The New Yorker</i>. And as you would imagine, that brought out the most avid collector of Sherlockian art that we know: Jerry Margolin, BSI ("Hilton Cubitt").<br />
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Jerry joined us way back on <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose16">Episode 16 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> to share his stories about his considerable art collection. And <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/12/one-sherlockians-christmas-card.html#.XCxZe1xKjb0">he shared his Christmas card tradition</a> with us as well.<br />
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We caught up with Jerry to follow his pursuit of the original art from the cover of <i>The New Yorker</i>.<br />
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It was posted on Facebook. Somebody posted the cover long before it came out, so I don't know where they got the advance of the cover from. But as soon as I saw it, I showed it to [my wife] Saint Judy and said, "Gee, I've got to try and go after this. "<br />
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Well, it's of course a lot easier now with Google and websites and so on. Even better than it was when I had no internet many, many moons ago. But usually, most artists now have a website. (I'm giving away my trade secrets here.) I have a feeling everybody else knows this as well, but I'll Google it and hopefully a website comes up. And if it does, there's usually some type of contact, email or Facebook.  I go ahead and send them a message. I have a fairly standard message that I write to them. And I hope for the best that they'll write me back.<br />
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It's a gentleman named <a href="https://www.barryblitt.com/">Barry Blitt</a> and he apparently does quite a number of covers for <i>The New Yorker</i> and has for a while. So it took me a little longer than normal, about two days to get in touch with him and to find him and get in touch with him. And he wrote me back. I would much rather just pick up a phone and call somebody and speak to them directly. But finally he answered me and I asked him my basic question, "is the item available and how much does it cost?" and we go from there.<br />
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He does sell his pieces<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">—</span>I don't know how frequently because his published pieces are amazingly expensive. He actually wouldn't quote me. He said, "I'm kind of embarrassed to quote you. What would you be willing to offer for it?" And I gave him what I thought was a very generous offer for it. I don't like to<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">—</span>usually you get one shot to make an offer. And I try sometimes to go overboard instead of undercutting it.<br />
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So I gave him what I thought was a very generous offer for what I thought the art would be worth to me. And it took a little while for him to get back to me, but when he did he said, "Well normally<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">—</span>and this is why I was embarrassed to say<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">—</span>normally I get between $5,000 and $10,000 for my published covers." I said, "That's not in my financial universe, so thanks very much." But he said,  "I'm neurotic enough that when I do a cover I send two, and they can choose which one they want to use."<br />
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So he said "I would be happy to sell you the alternate, which is fairly close to the other one." As a matter of fact, the inscription he gave me on the back of the art<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">—</span>because I always ask an artist to sign it on the front and then inscribe it to me on the back because my framer cuts a window in the back mat to show off these descriptions<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">—</span>on this one, he, he wrote:<br />
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So he actually thinks they picked the <i>wrong </i>cover.<br />
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Well, my preference, of course, no matter which one was better or not better would be, do have had the actual published cover. That said, I think except for a couple of little minor differences of an arm here or a hand there, and a little bit of difference in the patterns that he used for the deerstalker and Inverness, I think it's a toss up on these. I would have been happy with either one of them. I think they're both incredibly good and I'm very happy with the one that I wound up getting except for the minor detail that it isn't the final published cover. But I have a Frederic Dorr Steele that is not the final published version, and I'm happy that I have that one too.<br />
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<b>When you get a piece of art like that—a published piece of a magazine cover—do you typically frame the public piece, the magazine cover next to the original piece of art?</b></h3>
I have done that in one or two cases. I'm looking at one now on my wall here where I did do that. Mostly what I'll do is frame the piece and then on the back in a mylar bag we'll attach the magazine to the back of the frame. It gets fairly large if you have to frame both together. And I just have no more wall space. I literally have no more wall space and that's why I'm not framing pretty much anything else. I just have nowhere to put it and it would just sit on the floor or somewhere. This one I I will hang when I get it framed. I'll find space for it, even if I have to remove something else from the wall.<br />
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I'm going to try and put it next to my Obama piece. I have the painting of the cover of The National Review. It was a painting Obama dressed as Holmes. I tracked down the artist. It's a magnificent, beautiful, full color piece. And I tracked down the artists, a gentleman named Ramon Guen and  asked if I could purchase the cover. And he said it was gone already. And I asked him, "Could you recreate it for me?"<br />
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So he said, "Yeah, I can do that." So he recreated it—and I'm talking down to the last pen stroke.<br />
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And that one, I framed and I have the magazine cover on the back of that one. I want to try and find space to put this when it's done next to Obama.<br />
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<b>Do you see a lot of visual representations of Sherlock Holmes in the political realm?</b></h3>
Oh sure. As matter of fact, there were two recent cartoons. I just got two pieces from a phenomenal artist and political cartoonist—a Pulitzer Prize winner—named Mike Luckovitch. <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/luckovich/mike-luckovich-hurry-sherlock/oRom9cHPnl87JA7IudhHRO/">One is Holmes with "FBI" on his Inverness</a>. He's holding a paper that says "Kavanaugh Allegations" and says, "Come Watson, we have a job to do." And off to the right is Trump holding a stopwatch and saying, "Time's up!"<br />
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<b>The best part about all of this is how you make it a spectator sport for the rest of us.</b></h3>
Well, I'm, I'm glad if people enjoy it. I don't do it as a "Ooh, look at me, I've got this." I just want to share the stuff with people and I hope that they enjoy seeing some things that maybe they'll never get a chance to see.<br />
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One of those things of course, is the [original] Paget. I'm one of the very, very lucky people to have an original Paget. So usually when a Sherlockian visits, that's what they want to see the first time right when they get here. And I'm happy to show it. I still, after I've owned it now for going on almost 40 years I still stare at it and kind of pinch myself. Because back in my early collecting days, that was not even a dream. So to have actually have been able to do it is pretty amazing to me. Still after all these years.<br />
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<b>Which Paget drawing is it?</b></h3>
It's from "The Resident Patient," of Holmes holding the cigar case sniffing the cigar. It is one of the more well known pieces. I'm happy to show this stuff to anybody, uh, that would like to make the trip to Portland to see it. If anybody does, they can contact me and if I'm home and going to be here and they're welcome to stop by.<br />
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Jerry's original Paget and many others can be found in <a href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/paget.html"><i>The Complete Paget Portfolio</i></a> from Wessex Press. We interviewed Nick Utechin, the book's editor, for <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose156" target="_blank">Episode 156</a>.<br />
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We thank Jerry for sharing his story with us.<br />
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