{"id":16102,"date":"2024-08-05T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=16102"},"modified":"2024-08-10T06:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T05:54:47","slug":"auctions-a-tale-of-three-lows-and-one-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2024\/08\/05\/auctions-a-tale-of-three-lows-and-one-high\/","title":{"rendered":"AUCTIONS – A Tale of Three Lows and One High and a VERY High!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I found out about some of pieces of original PAN artwork coming up for sale at couple of auction houses and thought I would give them a punt. One I had known about for quite a while as Mark at Sworders had asked me if I could identify the artist which I could as it was Hans Helweg. It was for the later edition of ‘Sweet Thursday’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by John Steinbeck. I thought I had bid a reasonable amount but in the end it went well above that at \u00a3380. The second low was for Eric Tenney’s artwork for ‘The Stone Leopard’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Colin Forbes at Tooveys. I wasn’t that bothered about it so I didn’t bid that high but what I hadn’t noticed was that it also included the artwork for ‘Path Into the Unknown: The Best of Soviet S. F.’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> with a cover by W F Phillips. This went for \u00a3110 and Stuart Webb was the successful bidder. The third lot was something I really regret missing as I didn’t read all the details. It appeared to be a collection of artwork for children’s books but also included paintings by Roger Hall for three covers in the ‘PAN Romance Series’.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> It went for \u00a3130 and again Stuart was the lucky bidder. So we come to the one high which was for <\/span>‘Find A Victim’ <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a>by John Ross Macdonald with a cover by Stephen Richard Boldero. I probably got carried away and bid too high to win it at \u00a3300. On the plus side it also came with several other artworks including two paintings for a couple of covers for published hardbacks and some roughs. Thanks to Stuart for the photographs of his winning lots and permission for me to include them on the appropriate pages.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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There was a very optimistic seller on eBay offering a home bound copy of the PAN 22nd printing of ‘Moonraker’<\/strong><\/em><\/span> from 1965 as a hardback.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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I found out about some of pieces of original PAN artwork coming up for sale at couple of auction houses and thought I would give them a punt. One I had known about for quite a while as Mark at Sworders had asked me if I could identify the artist which I could as it […]<\/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\/16102"}],"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=16102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}