Tigger sketch fetches $49,770

Tiggers might not like honey but collectors apparently do.

A sketch by Winnie the Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard titled “Tiggers Don’t Like Honey” fetched $49,770 at auction Tuesday, well above the pre-sale estimate of $24,000 to $32,000.

Bonhams auction house said the drawing, of Pooh dipping his paw into a honey pot while Tigger and Piglet look on, was bought by a private collector in Germany for his wife, who had loved the characters as a child.

The large oval pencil drawing is an enlarged version of an illustration that appeared in A.A. Milne’s children’s classic “The House at Pooh Corner.”