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Sherlock Holmes

From "The Norwood Builder"

With dramatic suddenness he struck a match and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall. As he held he match nearer I saw it was more than a stain. It was the well-marked print of a thumb. "Look at that with your magnifying glass Mr. Holmes."

Technical Details

Number of stamps: five se-tenant
Date of issue: 12 October 1993
Design: Andrew Davidson
Printer: The House of Questa, United Kingdom.
Process: offset lithography
Stamp designs © Royal Mail 1993
Format: vertical
Size: 30 mm × 50 mm
Perforations: 14 × 14½
Number per sheet: 100
Paper: unwatermarked phosphor-coated
Gum: PVA

Cover design: Keith Bassford
Photography: Chris Morris
Text: Christopher Somerville
Consultant: Stanley MacKenzie

Acknowledgements: The Reigate Squires, The Six Napoleons and The Final Problem film photographs – reproduced by kind permission of Stoll Moss Theatres; The Hound of the Baskervilles film photographs – © BBC 1968; The Greek Interpreter film photograph – © Granada Television.
 

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