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BBC News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Auction for The Jungle Book drawings found in Hastings junk shop
Illustrations of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book characters commissioned 122 years ago are going up for Potters will start taking bids on the 16-illustration collection at its Messingham saleroom, near Scunthorpe, on artwork's current owner found the watercolours in a Hastings junk shop half a century ago, according to the auction Publishers commissioned the folio in 1903 and published the illustrations alongside the stories five years later, Potters said. "Just 500 of the folios were produced and that was for both Britain and America," said saleroom director Kat added that many of the folios - drawn by illustrators Maurice and Edward Detmold - have since been broken up so pages could be framed individually, meaning "surviving complete folios are incredibly rare". This copy of the folio bears the bookplate of Bristol businessman Sir George White, who pioneered the city's aerospace industry and electric tram current owner is not confirming the sum they originally paid for the collection in Hastings, according to amount was large enough to "make her walk away from the emporium" and return later when she "worked out how she could raise the cash", Ms Lister the auction house added the expected sale price of between £2,000 and £4,000 was "rather more'" than the 1970s price.
Telegraph
30-04-2025
- Health
- Telegraph
Harold Macmillan's right-hand man died after A&E delay, inquest told
His condition deteriorated during the wait and he died two days later in hospital, the inquest heard. The Inner West London Coroner's Court was told on Wednesday that Mr Byam Shaw was returning from a visit to his wife, Constance, on Sept 23 2024 when he fell on the stairs to his flat in Notting Hill, west London, and hit his head. Jean Harkin, the assistant coroner, told the hearing: 'On the way back up the stairs, he had fallen. The fall was heard by his wife, who found him on the floor. 'She alerted his daughter and London Ambulance Service were called and attended, taking him to hospital. The patient had been awake and talking the entire time.' The inquest heard he had a laceration at the back of his head but the bleeding had stopped before the ambulance arrived. A scan later revealed he had suffered a subdural haematoma, an area of bleeding between the skull and surface of the brain. 'A CT scan was performed, confirming the unsurvivable brain injury,' Ms Harkin said. 'His family were made aware his haematoma was likely life-ending and a decision was therefore made to focus on comfort care.' Mr Byam Shaw died at the hospital shortly at approximately 6.50am on Sept 25, the hearing heard. His exact cause of death was 'acute traumatic subdural haematoma following a fall'. Mr Byam Shaw joined Macmillan Publishers in 1964 as an international sales executive and became the protégé of former prime minister Mr Macmillan, who founded the company in 1920. Mr Byam Shaw worked as chief executive and chairman of Macmillan Publishers for more than 30 years and helped launch the international expansion of the company in Asia, Africa, and the American continent. He also started influential academic journals including Nature Medicine and Nature Genetics.
