Dino has been a member of the Chicago Pipe Club since nearly its inception in the mid 1990s and has been working at the Shows since the early 2000s. He began his interest in Sherlock Holmes around the age of 10 and began smoking a pipe at 14 years old.

He will present a seminar on “The Pipe Tobaccos of Holmes and Watson”. He will speak on the tobaccos identified in the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories, with particular emphasis on The Arcadia Mixture.