{"id":5657,"date":"2017-10-09T05:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T05:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2023-11-20T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:24:36","slug":"the-crock-of-gold-brian-withams-plus-how-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2017\/10\/09\/the-crock-of-gold-brian-withams-plus-how-much\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Crock of Gold”, Brian Withams plus “How much!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While searching for information on artists I came across a cover I’d not seen before for the novel “The Crock of Gold” by James Stephens. Now I’ve got a copy of that edition can I find the name of the artist, annoyingly no. I think PAN published four editions and the only artist I can name is Val Biro<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 for the 1953 cover. The four covers can be seen HERE\u00a0<\/span><\/a>I’ll keep looking for those elusive artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

After putting up a page to show “The Dam Busters”<\/span><\/a> covers last week I thought I’d see if I could find out any more about Brian F S Withams who’s painting appears on the 1978 edition. I don’t know if it was commissioned by PAN as Brian painted many aviation scenes. I found an address for him in Kingston Upon Thames and wrote to there but unfortunately I got a reply from the present occupant to say I had got the right address but he didn’t live there any more and they though he might have died.
\nI emailed the ‘Guild of Aviation Artists’<\/span> <\/a>and Martin Perman kindly replied to say that Brian had been Vice Principal of the Guild but had died in November 2012. The only other information I could find was he was born in September 1932 in Maldon Essex and married Rose M Scott in 1956 in Surrey Northern.\"\"<\/a>Look carefully to see it is signed ‘Withams’ middle bottom on the back cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

……. and for those wondering if it’s worth collecting paperbacks here is an optimistic seller on amazon.ca. It says they’ve ‘Just Launched” as a seller but at these prices it may soon be more of a case of “sunk without trace” Even converted to \u00a3660 it sounds a tad too much!\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While searching for information on artists I came across a cover I’d not seen before for the novel “The Crock of Gold” by James Stephens. Now I’ve got a copy of that edition can I find the name of the artist, annoyingly no. I think PAN published four editions and the only artist I can […]<\/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\/5657"}],"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=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}