A RARE original bronze sculpture of Peter Pan is to be sold at auction.
The bronze study, based on the much-loved character from Scots author JM Barrie’s novel of the same name, is valued at £25,000–£30,000.
It is one of the reductions from an original life size bronze, one of London’s best-known monuments.
Barrie commissioned the statue from Sir George Frampton and it was erected overnight in secret in 1912 in Kensington Gardens, having only been shown previously in 1911 at the Royal Academy, London.
The reduction will be sold in Edinburgh on April 26 at Lyon & Turnbull’s sale of Decorative Arts: Design since 1860.
It comes from a private Scottish collection where it has been in the family since the figure was cast in 1920.
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