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| Pooh bear sketch sold for £31,000 | Pooh bear sketch sold for £31,000 |
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| An original sketch of favourite AA Milne character Winnie the Pooh has fetched £31,20 at auction - almost double its pre-sale estimate. | |
| The pencil drawing of the bear dipping a paw in a honey pot was bought by a German collector for his wife. | The pencil drawing of the bear dipping a paw in a honey pot was bought by a German collector for his wife. |
| It was sold by the family of the artist, EH Shepard, at Bonhams auction rooms in London and easily exceeded its estimated price of £15,000-20,000. | |
| A sketch for Kenneth Grahame's story The Wind in the Willows made £7,440. | |
| The pencil drawing showing Rat and Mole having a picnic on a river bank, was expected to make around £10,000. | |
| The Pooh stories are timeless because they're not laden with morality Luke BatterhamBonhams | The Pooh stories are timeless because they're not laden with morality Luke BatterhamBonhams |
| It appeared in the published book with the caption "Now pitch in, old fellow! And the Mole was indeed very glad to obey". | It appeared in the published book with the caption "Now pitch in, old fellow! And the Mole was indeed very glad to obey". |
| The oval drawing of Pooh, also showing Tigger and Piglet, is an enlarged and expanded version of the illustration "Tiggers don't like honey" used in The house at Pooh Corner. | |
| The successful bidder bought it on the telephone from Germany. | |
| Bonhams' book specialist Luke Batterham told BBC News the Pooh stories are timeless because they are not "laden with morality like many childrens' tales". | Bonhams' book specialist Luke Batterham told BBC News the Pooh stories are timeless because they are not "laden with morality like many childrens' tales". |
| He said: "The illustrations are essential. Visually, that's what is kept in people's imaginations. | He said: "The illustrations are essential. Visually, that's what is kept in people's imaginations. |
| "The images are constantly in the public's mind because of all the spin-offs, but you can't beat the original drawings." | "The images are constantly in the public's mind because of all the spin-offs, but you can't beat the original drawings." |
| Rat and Mole have a picnic in Grahame's The Wind in the Willows | |
| He added that the original books have "outlived" and "defeated" the Disney versions of the story. | He added that the original books have "outlived" and "defeated" the Disney versions of the story. |
| Two pencil sketches by Shepard for Milne's poem Buckingham Palace made £840 for the pair. | |
| In one, Christopher Robin salutes a palace guard; the other shows him holding hands with Alice. | In one, Christopher Robin salutes a palace guard; the other shows him holding hands with Alice. |
| The sale also featured archive material from children's illustrator Beatrix Potter. | |
| A signed first edition of The Tailor of Gloucester plus correspondence between Beatrix and her friends, Elizabeth and Edith Todhunter, fetched £3,840. | |
| In her letters to the sisters, Beatrix reveals her feelings about the commercialisation of her characters. | |
| She said of Peter Rabbit: "There is nothing more to be made of Peter commercially. There have been dolls, china, slippers, etc for years - they bring in royalties; but somehow I never care for them." |