Highly scarce and quite iconic vintage 10x8-inch black and white portrait as Sherlock Holmes, chugging away on his Calabash pipe, boldly signed in blue fountain pen in-person in England in the early 1990s. In good condition, with a light crease to the upper right area, invisible when the photo is viewed head-on. Classically handsome English-born Jeremy Brett was arguably the definitive onscreen Sherlock Holmes, in the superb series by Grenada Studios in the 1990s. He died of heart failure at the age of 61, after years of eluding fans and using secretaries to answer his fan mail, and this is a nice, incontrovertibly authentic exemplar. 

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