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• n  a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters

• The strapping ex-Marine is aided by Paco, an old English sheep dog who wears a deerstalker hat and slurps champagne, and by a legion of kindly kids whom he calls, naturally the .
• Wearing a waterproof hat that looked like a combination sou'wester and deerstalker, the Duke shot a 98.
• The New Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius (Olga Katzin Miller) has written a dedication in verse ("Hedunit") to the hawk-nosed man in the deerstalker cap who "started a mania .

News & Articles

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• Doyle estate, writer dispute copyright on Sherlock Holmes
  Now that copyright protections have expired on nearly all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales about the pipe-puffing detective in the deerstalker hat, are writers free to depict the character in new mysteries without seeking permission or paying license fees?
  Jan. 3, 2014 - Boulder Daily Camera
• Sherlock Holmes copyright: Is character now fair game for writers?
  CHICAGO (AP) -- It's the kind of puzzle that might have amused Sherlock Holmes himself. Now that copyright protections have expired on nearly all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales about the pipe-puffing detective in the deerstalker hat, are writers free to depict the character in new mysteries
  Jan. 3, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News

Quotes

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• Guy Ritchie in Aberdeen Press and Journal
  The deerstalker and 'Elementary, my dear Watson', never happened (in the books) actually, although we're all aware of the obvious symbols of Sherlock Holmes,says Ritchie. "I made a decision early on that if we were going to do this we'd...
• Jonathan Pryce in ic Wales
  Pryce said, "We resisted a too stereotypical approach to Holmes. The deerstalker makes just one appearance and because it is made for family viewing smoking is discouraged. As pipe smoking makes me nauseous, I was very happy not to light up."