Hound of the Baskerville

This Hound of the Baskerville is carved out of an old sycamore tree trunk that stood in the garden of Liberton Bank House where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) stayed for a period as a young boy while he attended a nearby school in Edinburgh.

Some of the wood was also recently used for carving the "Sherlock Violin" and it is planned that two more violins, a viola and a cello will also be made from the tree for a group called the Conan Doyle Quartet.

(Animal 5)