Six-year-old Christopher Robin with Winnie the Pooh
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A family photo of Christopher Robin, the son and inspiration for Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne, is expected to draw a crowd when it is auctioned off.
The previously unpublished black and white picture, showing the six-year-old clutching Winnie the Pooh, originally belonged to the actor Francis Lister.
It, along with ink sketches featuring the bear and his friends, is expected to fetch between �3,000 and �6,000.
They will go on sale at Dukes Auction House in Dorchester, Dorset, on 8 July.
The sketches entitled "Pooh lowers the sail" show Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet and friends in a sailing ship pulled by a horse landing at what looks like Toyland.
They were drawn by EH Shepard - who illustrated all the Pooh books.
The picture comes from a photograph album which contains a number of images of the Milne family at Cotchford farm in Kent, and a photo of a young Leslie Howard.
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