Rupert and the plans

THE jacket was torn with loss and four of the five paintbox pictures had been partly coloured, but a copy of The New Adventures of Rupert, the 1936, first Rupert annual, was sold at £580 in a May 13 sale held by Greenslade Taylor Hunt.

Maps offered in the Taunton sale included two manuscripts of Kent interest. Drawn by John Shorter in…

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