Comments on: The Deerstalker: Where Sherlock Holmes’ Popular Image Came From

By: Servelan

Servelan — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:04:55 +0000

An ‘ear-flapped traveling cap’ is referenced in “The Adventure of Silver Blaze”, and while our current term is ‘deerstalker’, the fact remains that Holmes did indeed wear one and Mr. Gillette merely followed canon.

By: Bud Chapman

Bud Chapman — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:18:59 +0000

This stuff is great, of course I am a history buff and love anything having to do with history. I was not aware of William Gillette playing Sherlock Holmes. My research goes to Arthur Woehoner(sp) and of course Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I can’t help but wonder what the overall cost would be today for an original Strand Magazine from that time era?

By: Tyler Horsley

Tyler Horsley — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:12:14 +0000

The deerstakler hat was contributed to Sherlock Holmes identity by William Gillette, the American actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes on stage for a few decades in the early 20th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette

By: Leslie Katz

Leslie Katz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:31:20 +0000

Paget wasn’t the first to depict Holmes in a deerstalker. That honour goes to an unidentified artist who illustrated The Sign Of Four when it was serialised in the Bristol Observer in 1890. You can see that illustration in my paper “Sherlock Holmes in Australian Reasons for Judgment or Decision”, available from: http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1337347.