{"id":16605,"date":"2024-12-23T06:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T06:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=16605"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:06:16","slug":"happy-christmas-my-christmas-present-to-myself-and-the-saint-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2024\/12\/23\/happy-christmas-my-christmas-present-to-myself-and-the-saint-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Christmas, My Christmas Present to Myself and &#8216;The Saint in New York&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Christmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16629\" style=\"width:617px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Christmas.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Christmas-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Christmas-768x213.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Wishing all fellow PAN Fans a very Happy Christmas<br \/><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>and successful book hunting in 2025.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John-Richards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"954\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John-Richards.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16607\" style=\"width:452px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John-Richards.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John-Richards-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John-Richards-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A little while ago I was lucky enough to get the original artwork for ten Corgi covers by John Albert Richards (09\/01\/1915 to 01\/07\/1964). I justified buying them by saying they were a Christmas present to myself. I thought that a couple had also been used on Bantam titles but thanks to Rog Peyton who pointed out that the Corgi covers by Richards were nearly exact copies of the Bantams. To see the covers click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2024\/Richards\/Richards.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>I couldn&#8217;t find any Christmas examples of same number, different cover so it will be PAN number 66<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/PAN66.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0&#8216;<em><strong>The Saint in New York&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">this week. Two of the covers are variants by John Pollack and two are variants by artist unknown. The changes over the four years seems to be mainly due to match house styles.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing all fellow PAN Fans a very Happy Christmasand successful book hunting in 2025. A little while ago I was lucky enough to get the original artwork for ten Corgi covers by John Albert Richards (09\/01\/1915 to 01\/07\/1964). I justified buying them by saying they were a Christmas present to myself. I thought that a [&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\/16605"}],"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=16605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}