British actor Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles (Getty) By Amanda Killelea 19:08, 1 Aug 2020Updated14:51, 3 Aug 2020 ...

"Although the great Basil Rathbone made great use of the prop, he certainly wasn't the man who made it the familiar image in the public mind. The Meerschaum pipe was first used by the well-known ...