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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.