BS: Forget election- Real Pooh!

Subject: BS: Forget election- Real Pooh!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 05:58 PM

Pooh's dip into honey fetches pounds at auction
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:27:20 PM
By ELLE MOXLEY

Tiggers might not like honey but collectors apparently do.

A sketch by Winnie the Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard titled "Tiggers Don't Like Honey" fetched 31,200 pounds ($49,770) at auction Tuesday, well above the pre-sale estimate of 15,000 to 20,000 pounds ($24,000 to $32,000).

Bonhams auction house said the drawing, of Pooh dipping his paw into a honey pot while Tigger and Piglet look on, was bought by a private collector in Germany for his wife who had loved the characters as a child.

The large oval pencil drawing is an enlarged version of an illustration that appeared in A.A. Milne's children's classic "The House at Pooh Corner."

A sketch drawn for another of Shepard children's books, the Wind in the Willows, sold for 7,440 pounds ($11,842). The drawing outlines Rat and Mole having a picnic on the riverbank.

The sale also included items from the collection of Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter, including a letter in which the author expressed her dislike of the merchandising of her character.

"There is nothing to be made of 'Peter' commercially," she wrote. "There have been dolls, china slippers, etc. for years -- they bring in royalties; but somehow I never care for any of them."

The 1936 letter is addressed to dollmakers Elizabeth and Edith Todhunter, two sisters Potter entrusted to make Mr. McGregor and Peter Rabbit figures.

The Potter collection also included a signed first edition of "The Tailor of Gloucester," which tells the story of a poor tailor, his cat, and the mice that live in his shop. The lot sold for 3,840 pounds ($6,124).

The sale prices include a buyer's premium.

In another auction on Nov. 11, Bonhams will sell an unpublished watercolor illustration by Potter of a female rabbit who wore a pink ribbon around her neck but who did not appear in any of Potter's tales. Also going up for sale then, will be a Christmas card featuring guinea pigs designed by the author and illustrator, the auction house said.

Subject: RE: BS: Forget election- Real Pooh!
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 06:49 PM

Oh, Pooh!

Subject: RE: BS: Forget election- Real Pooh!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:10 PM

Sorry, but no Pooh drawing is worth $50K unless it has Eeyore in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Forget election- Real Pooh!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:38 PM

In time for Christmas giving, Bauman (NY) has these suggestions:

Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, 1st ed- $3600
Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 1st ed in dj- $4000
E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, 1st ed- $2800
Charles Schulz, A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1st ed- $600

And for your caring parents-
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, limited 1st ed signed- $25,000.
Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile, 1st ed in dj- $8000
Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist, 1st ed signed- $10,500

Subject: RE: BS: Forget election- Real Pooh!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 12:34 AM

I have always enjoyed the Pooh books, but I feel I can enjoy the drawings just as much in a book as in the form of an expensive original.

About a year ago, my husband finally consented to read "Winnie the Pooh." To his amazement, he liked it!

Eeyore often helps me get through the day. For example, when I see parents allowing their children to stick their fingers in the moving parts of a luggage carousel, I shake my head and say, 'No brain at all, some of them. Just grey fluff blown there by mistake.'

Or 'Brains first and then hard work.' That's another good one from Eeyore.