 Despite being in circulation, "Sherlock Holmes Baffled" was only registered on February 24, 1903, and this is the date seen on the film's copyright title card.The occasionally suggested date of 1905 is probably due to confusion with a Vitagraph film titled "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom" (1905).The film was assumed to have been lost for many years until a paper copy was identified in 1968 in the Library of Congress Paper Print archive by Michael Pointer, a historian of Sherlock Holmes films.