Winnie the Pooh original sketch expected to sell for £50,000
A LOST sketch, the first-ever depiction of the children’s game Poohsticks, has been discovered...after 87 years.
The pencil drawing, by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator EH Shepard, still has a perforated edge from where he ripped it from his sketchbook.
His finished work – showing Pooh and Christopher Robin dropping sticks from a river bridge – appeared in AA Milne’s 1928 book The House At Pooh Corner.
The 9in by 5in sketch, owned by a friend of the artist’s wife, Norah, is expected to fetch £50,000 when sold at Sotheby’s in London on December 10.
Sotheby’s specialist Philip Errington called it “one of the most famous illustrations in children’s literature”.