Sherlock Holmes Hand Magnifier

Pewter magnifying glass with a sculpted Sherlock Holmes handle, magnifying the text 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in an open book on a vintage leather desk with a key, pipe, and spectacles
Pewter magnifying glass with a sculpted Sherlock Holmes handle, magnifying the text 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in an open book on a vintage leather desk with a key, pipe, and spectacles
Pewter magnifying glass with a sculpted Sherlock Holmes handle, magnifying the text 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in an open book on a vintage leather desk with a key, pipe, and spectacles

Sherlock Holmes Hand Magnifier

Make the small print easy and enjoy doing it. The Sherlock Holmes Pewter Hand Magnifier is made in Britain, measures 75mm and comes in an A. E. Williams box, a great gift for detective story fans.

The Sherlock Holmes Hand Magnifier is made from some of the finest British pewter, with a handle that nods to the most famous detective in fiction. It is genuinely useful for reading small print and it makes a good gift for anyone who has worked their way through the stories more than once.

Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887, the creation of the Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The London based consulting detective became famous for sharp observation and deduction on cases nobody else could crack. Conan Doyle played in the same cricket team as J M Barrie, believed in fairies and at the age of 40 tried to join the Boer War as a soldier but was turned down for being overweight.

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  • Specification
    • Made from some of the finest British pewter
    • 75mm in length
    • Weighs 125g
    • Ideal for reading small print
    • Comes complete in an A. E. Williams box
    • One of a range of hand magnifier designs
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Pewter magnifying glass with a sculpted Sherlock Holmes handle, magnifying the text 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in an open book on a vintage leather desk with a key, pipe, and spectacles

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A E Williams (Est 1779) Ltd is one of Britain's oldest pewter makers, still run by the family that founded it nearly 250 years ago. 


The story began when Thomas Williams started a small workshop making flatware and dishes from his home on the Welsh border, and from there the craft passed down through eight generations of the same family, all the way to Rebecca Johnson, who joined the business in 2015. 


Today we're based at our workshop in Digbeth, Birmingham, where we've been since the early 1970s.

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We work from a collection of over 1,500 antique bronze moulds, some of which are centuries old. Many were made by hand long before machine tooling existed, and we still use them today, alongside moulds and skills of our own, to produce pieces with the kind of character that mass production simply can't replicate.

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At A E Williams, the materials we work with have been chosen over nearly 250 years of making things properly. Pewter sits at the heart of everything we do, but we also work with slate, glass, leather, and wood — each selected because it brings something the others can't: a different feel, a different occasion, a different kind of beauty.

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