Cloverdale Goodwill Recants on 'Original' Pooh Drawing

Everybody loves a fairy tale, especially if it involves a lovable ol' bear named Pooh.

Unfortunately some fairy tales aren't true. A few days after the Cloverdale Goodwill auctioned off a tattered drawing of Winnie the Pooh paying a visit to Owl for a tidy $7,618, the experts have weighed in to call it a fake, according to the Press Democrat.

Quoting art expert Chris Beetles, the PD writes, ""It's very, very badly drawn. Most schoolchildren could have done better than that."

Beetles told The Press Democrat on Tuesday that if the drawing was genuine, it would be worth in excess of $200,000. He said the piece sold by Goodwill last week to an unidentified bidder "is so terrible, it's not even close."

The PD says Beetles went so far as to suggest the work, a 14-by-11-inch ink drawing that was donated to the Cloverdale store, is a deliberate attempt to defraud.

Redwood Empire Goodwill suspended the sale and is contacted the buyer, but they deny complicity.

"Clearly, we are not art experts," the PD quotes aid Mark Ihde, the CEO of the Redwood Empire Goodwill. "We should not have represented this as an original Shepard piece."

Read the full article on the Press Democrat.