The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest

Photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle with Eille Norwood

Poster for The Speckled Band, Richmond Hippodrome, 1912

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was personally involved in the direction of this adaptation of his famous Sherlock Holmes story.  The actor playing Sherlock Holmes, A.V. Bramble, was born in Portsmouth, England in 1880. (Item No. 2007/38).

This poster is being sent as part of an exhibition based on the Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest, that is opening in Maizuru, Japan on the 18 October 2008 and will run until 30 November 2008.