Arthur Conan Doyle was an Edinburgh man, so we had to do something special for the issue of the Sherlock Holmes stamps !
 

We produced one hundred first day covers which were, on the day of issue of the stamps, carried around some of the places in Edinburgh which have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle connections. The cover bears cachets showing its visits to Picardy place (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthplace), Lauriston Gardens (next street to where he lived in 1881, and used as a street name in A Study in Scarlet), 2 Melville Crescent (home of Dr. Joseph Bell; if you know your Holmes, you'll know who he was !), and to show that they were posted at the old Edinburgh General Post Office (on the go as the GPO in Doyle's time, now closed down). A descriptive sheet details other places covers were carried to (but for which there are not cachets).

Last updated  Wednesday 24 July 2002.  Copyright Robert Murray, 1999, 2002.
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