Welcome to The Fourth Garrideb, a scion where we celebrateCanonical and Conanical numismatics. There are many specializedSherlockian scions devoted to very narrow fields - The ElusiveBicyclists, Moriarty's Mathematicians, and The Practical, ButLimited, Geologists, just to name a few. Why shouldn't there be ascion devoted to Sherlockians who are also coin collectors.

Back in the early and mid 1990's, Ed Rochette and I had a fewconversations, while we were attending annual conventions of theAmerican Numismatic Association (ANA), about forming aSherlockian coin club. Unfortunately, we were never able tofollow up on this.

Fast forward to January 2014. Yours truly was laid up with aseverely broken right ankle for several months and startedrereading the Canon. Also during this time, season 3 of BBC'sSherlock premiered on my local PBS station. I started recallingmy conversations with Ed and decided to see if it would befeasible to try to form a club of coin collectingSherlockians.

I reached out to a few other collectors via email and theresponse was positive. A few weeks later, The E-Sylumpublished a query of mine on this topic and several other coincollectors responded with interest. It was decided that we wouldmeet in Chicago during the American Numismatic Association'sWorld's Fair of Money in August.

Seven brave and hearty souls arrived for our organizationalmeeting on Saturday, August 9, 2014. These seven Founding Chartermembers will be known as Syracusan Members - of the finestperiod.

There was a general discussion about whether a club like ourswould be of interest to others and it was decided that it was.Conversation followed regarding coins being mentioned in thevarious Holmes stories and I shared some literature from mylibrary relating to Holmes and Numismatics.

Bob Fritsch suggested we call ourselves The Fourth Garrideb,after The Adventures of the Three Garridebs, and recounted how EdRochette referred to himself as Nathan Garrideb. It wasunanimously decided to use this as our name.

Another discussion centered around the need to catalog Holmesrelated numismatic items and it was agreed that this would be oneof our scion's major goals. It was also discussed that we wouldproduce an electronic journal, with the possibility of an annualhard copy of the previous year's posts.

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