Not a sum to pooh-pooh

LONDON - A pen and ink drawing of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet was auctioned yesterday for a world record £80,500

LONDON - A pen and ink drawing of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet was auctioned yesterday for a world record £80,500. The picture by Ernest Howard Shepard was one of the original illustrations used in 1926 for the first edition of Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne.

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