Set Reminder2023-04-20 12:00:002023-04-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : A Study in Sherlock: The Curious Collection of Robert Hess Part I https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/a-study-in-sherlock-the-curious-collection-of-robert-hess-part-i-21932 This was the first sale from Robert Hess's collection of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. High spots in every category related to these two subjects included original illustration art, first editions, signed photos, and archives of letters.
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DOUBLEDAY, John (b. 1947). Sherlock Holmes bronze statuette. [England: 1988]. Bronze statuette, a smaller version of the statue created for Meiringen, Switzerland by Doubleday for ?Arthur Conan Doyle Platz? near The Sherlock Holmes Museum. On wooden base (176 x 106 x 170 mm). Fine. -- [Together with:] Sherlock Holmes Ceremonial Unveiling of the Sherlock Holmes Statue, Meiringen, September 10, ?88. [N.p., ca. 1988]. Approximately 1,002 x 501 mm. Rolled. Meiringen has an important place in Holmes lore, as it is the town where Holmes and Watson fled from Professor Moriarty in The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893). It is the closest town to the Reichenbach Falls, where Holmes had his dramatic confrontation with Professor Moriarty.