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Cards painted by Beatrix Potter sell for [Pounds]41,500

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20060921
Author:

Joanne Ginley

FOUR Christmas cards hand-painted by children's author Beatrix Potter discovered in a trunk in the attic of a Wiltshire cottage have sold for [Pounds]41,500 at auction.

The signed greetings cards - beautifully preserved in a brown envelope - were sent to Elinor and Bessie Lupton, whose father, Arthur Lupton, owned five mills in Leeds.

The girls - known as "The Misses Luptons" throughout their lives - kept the cards until their deaths within two years of each other in the late 1970s.

The sisters, part of a well-known and influential Leeds family, were compulsive hoarders and left ...

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