{"id":10793,"date":"2021-09-06T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2021-09-06T06:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:23:48","slug":"dragon-seed-miss-marple-and-philately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2021\/09\/06\/dragon-seed-miss-marple-and-philately\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dragon Seed&#8217;, Miss Marple and Philately."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This weeks artwork and sketches from Hans Helweg are for another Pearl Buck title, namely &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/PAN%202010%20M\/PANM97.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Dragon Seed&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> I photographed the original artwork in Hans studio and was really pleased to find a preliminary painting for it in the folders I was given.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ahoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-10802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ahoy-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ahoy-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ahoy.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a>I was also pleased to hear from &#8216;James Bond&#8217; aficionado Robin Harbour about another PAN book he spotted that once appeared on the silver screen. This time the film was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/AsSeenInFilms.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Murder Ahoy&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Agatha Christie starring Margaret Rutherford but it wasn&#8217;t just one but several shelves full but the book Miss Marple takes off the shelf isn&#8217;t a PAN or even a real title!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PAN have never been into collecting postage stamps &#8216;big time&#8217; but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2021\/Stamps.htm\"> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> are a couple of books&nbsp; that might be useful to those who do as a hobby. Looking through the catalogue it almost, but not quite, makes me think of taking up collecting again. One day I might get around to listing all the PAN cover artists who also did stamps like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%202\/Brian%20Sanders.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brian Sanders<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tikit.net\/2020\/YvonneGilbert\/YGilbert.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Yvonne Gilbert<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. As for a contived link to PAN and stamps will this UK 2002 issue surfice?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/51SFo3WZIRL._AC_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/51SFo3WZIRL._AC_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/51SFo3WZIRL._AC_.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/51SFo3WZIRL._AC_-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks artwork and sketches from Hans Helweg are for another Pearl Buck title, namely &#8216;Dragon Seed&#8217; I photographed the original artwork in Hans studio and was really pleased to find a preliminary painting for it in the folders I was given. I was also pleased to hear from &#8216;James Bond&#8217; aficionado Robin Harbour about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}