The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 16, April 14, 2002, Article 7

COBWRIGHT FOUND

  The question about the book, "A Journey Through the
  Monkalokian Rain Forests in Search of the Spiney
  Fubbaduck" by Cobwright drew several responses.

  Thomas P. Wolf  writes: "it is indeed real... It was limited to
  125 copies, & I have 2 of them...  The one I have at hand
  is #9 of 125...  I have no idea what the title means, if anything...
  It's actually referred to as Evasives 1993..."

  Allan Davisson writes: "Cobwright?  Of course the reference
  exists. I have copy 90 of 125.   It is a xerox copy, an 11 size,
  bound with the kind of black plastic gripper spine students
  use to hold term papers together.  It is an extensive (and
  essential, if you like this series) list of evasions.  The author is
  the proprietor of Coins of Beeston and can be seen in various
  guises in the photos of token folks at the front of the Withers
  reference, BRITISH COPPER TOKENS, 1811-1820.

  There will always be an England (and Wales) -- where would
  we be without them in this otherwise overly serious world?
  (I have been reading one of Bill Bryson's accounts of British
  travel--this reference is obviously an expected and perfectly
  natural product of this island.)

  Bob Lyall writes: "I have forwarded a copy of this email to
  Mr Cobwright (regarding evasions) who I can assure you is a
  real person.  He has an abiding passion (and knowledge) for
  "evasions" and I leave it to him to contact you.  I expect he has
  emerged from his Rain Forest now that Spring is here, in search
  of the Spiney Fubbaduck Monkalokian.  He sometimes lectures
  on the topic of evasions to an attentive and discerning audience
  of British Paranumismatic collectors at our annual Token
  Congress."

  Mullhulland Ignatious Cobwright writes: "Mr. Lyall has sent me
  a copy of your newsletter in which my existence is doubted.
  My book is indeed available as mentioned by Mr.Grogan.  I
  am astonished that the lucid title should be misconstrued as an
  April Fool.   Mr.Bill McKivor distributes my work in the
  United States or you can contact  me via my quill pen at
  http://hometown.aol.co.uk/micobwright/tokenlist.html

  For your readers' information:  I began work on Evasions in
  1984 and have prepared several pamphlets on the subject.
  If anyone would like more details just let me know.  I am
  promising a fully illustrated work, but then I've been promising
  that for a long time. Any reader with questions may email me
  with pleasure at MICOBWRIGHT@aol.com."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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