Vintage view: Winnie-the-Pooh

Kya deLongchamps celebrates a bear of very little brain, but very large heart, with some collectables for your honey pot.

IT would be fair to say that technically, Winnie-the-Pooh (and his hyphen should always be respected) is due two birthdays. The first is 1925, when he appeared under this name in the London Evening News, in cartoon form by J H Dowd, accompanied by a Christmas story.

The second would be 1926, when the first book by AA Milne invited us into the delightful, sunshine-filled world of Pooh and his friends with ‘Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders’.