Check out this business card, autographed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which he’s apparently telling someone that “The Valley of Fear” is going to be the final outing for Sherlock Holmes, which of course it was not. I’ll bet it goes for way more than the projected $8000-$12,000. This is one of those moments where I wish I had a ton of disposable cash.
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I don’t know. I think that’s the sort of item that one would be too nervous owning. The steps one would take to protect it might be too much to actually enjoy having it.
Something tells me that if you have the kind of cash lying around that you can drop it on that card, then you have the wherewithal to protect it in a way that would allow you to enjoy it at will.
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The Holmes canon was my favourite reading as a child, and I can still cheerfully dip into the short-stories and enjoy them now, three decades later. The Valley of Fear was always my favourite of the four novels….despite the absence on Holmes for about half the piece.
Funnily enough, I was never particularly pushed on “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
Somewhere in my late single digits ior early teens, I ran across “The Adventure of The Speckled Band”, which creeped me out but was so good I reread it again, and again… I think I’ve read all of them at least once. some a lot more, and thanks to my friend Charlie, even read the Baring-Gould Annotated version, with all the cool side notes…
I’d love to have the calling card. It’d go great on my wall with the signatures of Ray Harryhausen and Link Wray…
All the business card in my wallet dissolve into a powdery mess. Sir Arthur was definitely not ordering from Vista Print.