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By Theresa Waldrop, CNN
The bridge made famous in the Winnie the Pooh books – where the bear and his friends played ‘Pooh sticks’ – is being offered for sale by the UK auction house Summer place.
The Ashdown Forest Bridge in England was the inspiration for the game described in AA Milne’s first Pooh book, “The House at Pooh Corner,” and illustrated by EH Shepard.
“Originally known as Posingford Bridge, Christopher Robin played it as a child in the 1920s with his father, author AA Milne, inventing the Pooh stick game which inspired the following books. The list says.
Robin renamed it Poohsticks Bridge in 1979.
The 114-year-old bridge could sell for as much as £ 60,000 (roughly $ 81,000), according to Summers Place Auctions estimates. Sealed bids are now accepted for the October 6 auction.
In 1999, the original bridge was replaced with a replica after it had become “worn and degraded by the countless thousands of visitors” over the years, the list says.
It was dismantled and stored at the Ashdown Forestry Center until the local council decided to “save” it, the auction house said.
The restoration includes local oak replacing any missing parts, the listing says.
Pooh illustrator Kim Raymond hosted two parties last month Airbnb remains in a replica of the House of the Bear to celebrate the 95th anniversary of Milne’s creation of Pooh.
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