Robert J. Silburn

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Robert J. 'Bob' Silburn was a UK fan and fanartist from Aberystwyth in Wales active in the 1940s. He was a member of the British Fantasy Society.

He produced the single-issue fanzine Yoshiwara Supplement with Syd A. Beach as a rider for Futurian War Digest and the first of two issues of Lens, the second being by Beach alone.

Gus Willmorth described meeting Silburn in Fan Slants #2:

After tea we talked awhile then walked to Silburn's residence in Rhyd y Felin, a small hamlet about two miles from the heart of Aberystwyth. There we talked for some time and looked over the Silburn book shelves of which there are many, his father having been a great reader before him. Most of them are non stf. Silburn is a fan artist and we looked over his work. Naturally I got one – heh, heh. At one time Beach and Silburn put out a fan mag (2 issues). Silburn did the pics in it with the exception of a few.

He is listed in the Directory of Anglo-Fandom of 1945 but not in later directories.

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