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[THEATRE POSTER]. Richmond Hippodrome / Messrs. Sydney Branscrove & N. C. Slaughter Present Sir A. Conan Doyle’s Great Success from the Adelphi Theatre, London, W. By arrangement with Mr. Arthur Hardy, entitled The Speckled Band… Stoke Newington: Tribes’ Printing Works, 1912. Original poster for a stage version of The Speckled Band at the Hippodrome. Approximately 30 x 20”. Linen backed. One vertical and three horizontal creases, lower right corner re-attached, several marginal repaired tears, some restoration and inpainting (mainly at creases). There are numerous reprints of this poster, but this is the exceedingly rare original; this copy obtained by Robert Hess from famed Sherlockian Richard Lancelyn Green.