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Article 1

                    The four figures pictured above are for sale - please contact me.

27 June 1994 was a great day for collectors; the auction of Britains Archive Collection which featured some rare and some unique Cococub colour variants.  Since then my close interest in variants has led me to conclude that there is a set that is very special in that figures from it only occur very infrequently and then they all tend to feature in the same sale indicating that they have been in the same ownership since acquisition and I conclude that they were given as a set rather than collected individually. 

These figures include:-

Tiny Tusks with white (rather than yellow) patch to trousers,

Bill Badger with a blue (rather than red) scarf,

Monty Monkey with a beige (rather than red) Fez,

Percy Pelican with a blue (rather than red) cap,

also we could perhaps include Timothy Tortoise with a grey front rather than a yellow waistcoat.

I have no clues as to the source of these variants; if they were part of the "Spring Clothing" release they would come up for sale as individual pieces with greater frequency.  Perhaps they were from the box of 4 figures that Cococubs could buy with their coupons.

        Any clues or observations from fellow collectors would be appreciated.   

Article 2 ......... My latest publication about the guy who designed the cubs.

                   "Ernest Aris The Man Who Drew for Beatrix Potter"

This book has a most comprehensive Chapter on The Cococubs and much more.  You will discover that the man who designed the Cococubs also wrote and illustrated some 140 children's books as well as designing postcards, cigarette cards and posters etc etc.  The 124 page book has over 300 illustrations, 42,000 words and has taken 20 years of research to provide the biography of one of our greatest and most prolific illustrators.

The author Hunter Davies found my research "fascinating" whilst Joyce Irene Whalley, formerly of the Rare Books Section of the V&A Museum wrote "When I co-founded the Beatrix Potter Society over 20 years ago, I would not have believed we would still be finding out new information about her work today. You have opened up another window, and I do congratulate you".

The author, Judy Taylor Hough MBE, wrote "…….let me congratulate you on an excellent piece of research - an important addition to the Potter saga. I am fascinated to discover that our Mr Aris is a much more interesting man than I had ever imagined."

In response to a request from Linda Lear who published "Beatrix Potter, A Life in Nature," in 2007 I gave permission for her to quote from some of my research which now appears here, in full, for the first time.

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The following couple of pictures from the book compare the Tasseltip characters with the cococubs.

Article 3 ............ Latest discovery - Tiny Tusks where the tie has not been painted.

Article 4 - Only taken me 20 years but I finally got a full set of Little Rabbits. (Black & Brown shoes)

Article 5......... Please remember that this is just a fun hobby site & that my layout skills are a bit limited.  It doesn't seem to matter as whilst the site has had over 3,000 hits it is disappointing that I have only heard from half a dozen collectors!

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