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A set of 7 7x5 photographic prints featuring movies, stage plays and adverts with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
There are two prints from 'Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror' plus 'Sherlock Holmes in Washington', 'Sherlock Holmes Faces Death' and 'The Scarlet Claw'. There is also an advertisement for Chesterfield cigarettes and an advert for a stage play at the Majestic Theatre.
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was born on June 13, 1892, in Johannesburg, South Africa. His father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer, and his mother, Anna Barbara Rathbone, a violinist. Basil was the eldest of three children, with a younger sister Beatrice and a younger brother John. Rathbone grew up in England, and attended the Repton School from 1906-1910, where he became an accomplished athlete. He served in WW1 as a second lieutenant, an intelligence officer, with the Liverpool Scottish, winning the Military Cross. Some believe Basil Rathbone to be the definitive visual Sherlock Holmes. He starred as Holmes on the radio and in film.