Pooh Bear Scores Very Big Pot

Four drawings of Winnie the Pooh and his friends have sold for $346,000 at Christie’s auction house, more than four times the estimate.

The price was a record for drawings by Ernest Howard Shepard, the auction house said Friday.

The biggest seller was a pen and ink illustration of Pooh and Piglet strolling and chatting, which sold for $128,000.

All four drawings, purchased by an anonymous European collector, illustrated the first Pooh book, “Winnie-the-Pooh,” published in 1926.

Creator A. A. Milne based Winnie the Pooh on a bear in a London zoo beloved by his son, Christopher Robin.