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So this is the part where a tactful, friendly person would say that the best part of the con was getting to meet and hang out with friends. But as I think we've well established by now, I am not a tactful, friendly person. So let me be honest: the marvelous conversations and meetups with friends and writers were only the second best part of the con*.

This was the best:

( Cut for large images. )

Thanks to the small fact that the email alerting to this ended up in my spam filter, rather than my regular email, a filter I rarely bother to check often, I failed to inform you all that for the low, low price of several thousand dollars Sotheby's was auctioning off various original watercolor and other paintings from classic children's illustrators, including Arthur Ransom, Beatrix Potter, Kate Greenaway, and (the reason I was emailed about this) Oz illustrators W.W. Denslow and John R. Neill, incidentally proving that I will never have enough money to own an original Neill, ever.

Anyway, some of the illustrations in the e-catalogue are lovely, so I thought I'd pass along the link for everyone to meander through even if it's too late for any of us to bid.

And while searching, I found something of potential interest to my mother and

fbhjr: illustrations by a certain George Henry Boughton. (The collection has several more images.)