A Beatrix Potter collection running to 62 lots got a Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of March 30 up and running.
Although there were slightly disappointing bids of £12,000 and £6500 on examples of the privately printed, first and second issues of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901-02), other lots brought some good prices.
The first issue, estimated at £15,000-20,000, had been amusingly catalogued as having minor (rabbit?) nibbling to a lower corner of the upper cover.