Original hand-drawn Winnie-the-Pooh map breaks auction record

The original hand-drawn map of Hundred Acre Woods map by E.H. Shepard sold at auction for a record 430,000 pounds ($571,000).

This was the highest amount ever sold for a book illustration. It sold at Sotheby’s in London on July 10, 2018 for almost three-times its pre-sale estimate, according to the Associated Press.

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The 1926 sketch features Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and landmarks including “Bee Tree” and “Eeyore’s Gloomy Place.”

The map and four other Shepard Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations sold for a total of 917,500 pounds at Tuesday’s auction. Shepard’s illustrations were art for A.A. Milne’s tales about Winnie-the-Pooh and hie friends.

The map was last sold in 1970 for 1,700 pounds.

A new movie “Christopher Robin”  being released August 3, 2018, follows the adult Christopher Robin, and at a time of crises suddenly meets his old friend Winnie the Pooh and returns to the Hundred Acre Wood.