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Sonia Fetherston

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"...blonde and fair-haired, with the piquant contrast of a pair of dark eyes..." (VALL) Happily devoted to Sherlock Holmes!

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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Preparing to send abt 120 more vintage/rare/unusual Sherlockian greeting cards to Univ of Minnesota’s Sherlock Holmes Collections. They’ll join my previous gift of 1,145 similar Sherlockian cards. Next time you visit Minneapolis, ask to view the Fetherston Collection. Labor of love, for sure!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
My favorite holiday is St. Valentine’s Day…… Next time you’re in Minneapolis be sure to visit the University of Minnesota’s Andersen Library. Their #SherlockHolmes Collections includes my vintage Sherlockian greeting cards, more than 1,100 of them. Here’s just one example. Happy ❤️ Day to you!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Now available from BSI Press via bakerstreetirregulars.com (found in the history and biography section) it’s my new book WIGGINS: TOM STIX AND THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS. Stix was the BSI leader who did away with the Sherlockian group’s unequal treatment of women, welcoming female Sherlockians!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Found this in one of my files. I think I saved it because it's got my favorite quote, from author Booth Tarkington to actor William Gillette: "I would rather see you play 'Sherlock Holmes' than be a child again on Christmas morning."
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
Happy Easter!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Oh, to have been there for this high school Sherlock Holmes dance performance! From the Bakersfield (Calif.) Californian newspaper 90 years ago today, 26 March 1934. Maybe it was like the...um...unusual Sherlock ballet of the 1950s?
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
105 years ago today, 21 March 1919, in a newspaper called the San Antonio (Texas) Light, a look at Mutt and Jeff....
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
65 years ago today (18 March 1959) the Dunkirk, New York Evening Observer ran this #Sherlockian theme ad for an auto repair shop and I'm loving it!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
70 years ago today (18 March 1954) the San Patricio County, Texas News ran this #Sherlockian-theme advert. I detect someone in the newspaper's classified department was one of us....
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
Coming April 13, 7 pm, at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Buster Keaton's SHERLOCK, JR. (1924, Metro Pictures) with live musical accompaniment. Palace of the Arts Theatre. See silentfilm.org. Lots of other offerings, too!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Nothing against Moriarty, but I always felt Culverton Smith in "The Dying Detective" was the Sherlockian Canon's biggest creep. Mere crime boss vs. dabbler in biological weaponry. Here he is as he appeared 110 years ago today, March 8, 1914, in the Salt Lake City Tribune:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
70 years ago, March 1 and 2 of 1954, the amazingly talented Edith Meiser (with artist Frank Giacoia) debuted the then-new Sherlock Holmes comic strip. It ran several years in many newspapers. Here are the first 2 strips as they appeared in the Chester PA Times on those dates:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle deduces a former convict...as told in the Batesville, Indiana (USA) Tribune, 120 years ago today, 18 February 1904.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
The British company Stoll produced a silent film series about Sherlock Holmes starring Eille Norwood. 100 years ago today, 16 Feb 1924, this thrilling ad appeared in the Daily Sun from Manitoba, Canada. Note our hero brandishing a handgun in the backseat of the speeding car (lower left)!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Valentines Day, my favorite holiday! Guess I’m a mushy romantic at heart; so is Sherlock Holmes, judging by the many valentines (old and new) that bear his image. Here’s a final example from my collection of Sherlockian greeting cards, now housed at the Andersen Library, University of Minnesota. ❤️
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Countdown to Feb. 14: Dr. Watson sometimes thought Sherlock Holmes was a “thinking machine,” but generations of Holmesians know there was a softer, sweeter side to the detective. That’s why Holmes has figured in scores of valentines over the years, like this one.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Countdown to Valentines Day: Another card of yore from my collection of Sherlockian-inspired greetings. I understand from Tim Johnson that my collection, now housed at Univ of Minnesota’s Andersen Library, are being digitized. Makes me really happy to share them with others!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
St. Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday: a day to celebrate love! ❤️ Between now and Wednesday I’ll post a few valentines from my collection of Sherlockian greeting cards, which are now housed at the University of Minnesota Elmer Andersen Library.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
When your friend pens a wonderful book of Sherlock Holmes-inspired tales, and asks you to blurb it! Absolutely ❤️ Margie Deck’s work and think you will, too. Brand new from Belanger Books…treat yourself today!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Page 1, "above the fold." One hundred years ago today, 7 February 1924, the Brandon, Manitoba (Canada) DAILY SUN newspaper revealed that Sherlock Holmes was officially "dead." The bearer of this bad news: Dr. Watson's literary agent, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sob!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
John Barrymore's SHERLOCK HOLMES (1922) is remembered for its rare longevity in the silent era. Here it is 100 years ago today, almost 2 years after its completion, still playing. This advert ran in the Abilene, Texas Daily Reporter, 3 February 1924 - story by "Sir Cannon Doyle"!!!! Seriously?!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
"You do occasionally find a carrion crow among the eagles." So says #SherlockHolmes in SHOS. Life imitates art: The eagle killed a rabbit for breakfast & dropped it on a roof. As it wheeled around to land and eat the crows moved in. Eagle frightened the crows away, took its rabbit and flew off! Wow!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
On a chilly winter evening I can curl up in front of my own fireplace, or I can settle in by the fire at this address. See you there….you know the way! #221B
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
My collection of 1,145 #Sherlockian greeting cards (1890s - 2023) is now at the Univ of Minnesota -- soon to be joined by a few more I have here at home. Birthday, valentines, anniversary, graduation and a surprising number of GET WELL cards...like this one, from the 1950s. Beautiful condition!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
"....big job well done." Published 100 years ago today, 22 January 1924, in the Freeport (Illinois, USA) Journal Standard newspaper. I'm loving it! 😘
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Now available from www.wessexpress.com CANONICAL CORNERSTONES, ed. by Peter Eckrich and Rob Nunn. A collection of essays about the foundational books for your Sherlockian library. You need this! (Be sure to check out my essay on Jack Tracy’s Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana.)
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
A terrific book - of COURSE I will say nice things about it!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Two of my favorite Sherlock Holmes quotes:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Sherlock Holmes advert alert: I found this jingle in an old (north island) New Zealand newspaper with the wonderful name of the "Whakatane Bay of Plenty Times," dated 15 January 1904 -- 120 years ago today:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Personally, I would never drive a car that rhymed with "eew-ick." BUT if I did I would buy this used 1950 model that featured a Sherlock Holmes cartoon in the ad, 70 years ago today (12 January 1954) in an newspaper called the Danville (Virginia, USA) Bee:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
70 years ago today, 10 January 1954, in the San Antonio (Texas) Express and News..... Love this public deerstalker-ing! Confession: I'm super curious about the guy's shorts. 😳
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
On this day 70 years ago, 10 January 1954, The Lawton, Oklahoma Constitution and Morning Press "observes" a certain birthday...
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
110 Years Ago Today: An amusing story about Arthur Conan Doyle...Is it true?...Published in an old newspaper called the Whitewright (Texas) Sun, 9 January 1914.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Happy 170th to the greatest detective ever: Sherlock Holmes!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
"Mystery and adventure...they serve no other purpose." That's purpose in and of itself!!! 100 years ago today, 5 January 1924, Sherlock Holmes in the Madison, Wisconsin State-Journal newspaper:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
90 Years Ago Today: From the newspaper The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 4 January 1914, this bit about Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle and motorcycles:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
One Hundred Years Ago Today....from the Reno (NV) Evening Gazette, 2 January 1924. That's not my wish!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Sherlock Holmes is featured on stamps? Why yes! There are lots of examples of Holmes stamps from a number of nations, and at least one Sherlockian scion society devoted to stamp and coin collecting.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Who else here collects Sherlockian pipes? Right now I'm enjoying this one, a churchwarden-style.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
One hundred years ago today, 12 December 1923, in the Xenia (Ohio) Evening Gazette...I remember studying the work of Cy Hungerford -- prominent editorial cartoonist -- in my J-school days. But for a decade or so he also produced this comic strip. Love the Sherlock Holmes reference.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Another reason for Sherlockians to drink tea: this one (I got mine today at World Market, BTW) contains Lion's Mane. Not the Canonical jellyfish, but an extract from mushrooms of the same name.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Young Dr. Watson with young Sherlock Holmes? Detail from a vintage postcard:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
December 13, back in 1912, subscribers of the Rocky Ford Enterprise newspaper (in Colorado) were eagerly reading the serialized #SherlockHolmes tale, "The Red Circle." Art by V.L. Barnes:
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
On this day, 130 years ago: A Study in Scarlet was being serialized in the Warren (Pennsylvania, USA) Evening Democrat, 12 December 1893. Those lucky readers, many seeing it for the first time ever!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
On this day, 120 years ago: a "Bond of Union" tobacco ad featuring #SherlockHolmes. From the London Evening News and Evening Mail, 11 December 1903.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
On this day, 110 years ago...the Joplin, Missouri Daily Globe (Dec. 10, 1913) featured this sweet little pre-Christmas cartoon. We've all known (or been) kids who like to snoop for their presents! Did not know that was an actual #Sherlockian trait.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
One hundred years ago today: Suggested books to give as Christmas presents (For men only? - What about the other 50% of the reading public?). It's interesting to see Conan Doyle and Christopher Morley there together!
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
One hundred years ago today: Cinema-goers in Tasmania settled into their seats and watched "A Scandal in Bohemia" -- which sounds like perfect fun! Clipping is from the Stanley C.H. Chronicle, 5 December 1923.
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Sonia Fetherston @221blonde.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
1898 American newspaper illustration: Arthur Conan Doyle -- and he looks so young!
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