Artwork by Peter Firmin, the artist and puppet maker who co-created some of Britain's best-known children's television characters, has sold for more than £400,000 at auction.
The two-day sale featured 534 lots of paintings, books and collectibles discovered at Firmin's home in Kent after the property was put up for sale.
According to Canterbury Auction Galleries, every lot was sold.
Among the highest-selling pieces were paintings featuring The Clangers and Noggin the Nog.
A signed Basil Brush artwork depicting the character talking to a mole sold for £6,000.
An animated Gabriel the Toad figure and an illustration of Nogbad firing a cannon at the Ice Dragon each fetched £4,200.
An illustration featuring Bagpuss alongside Emily and Professor Yaffle sold for £1,600.
Another Peter Firmin illustration showing the Soup Dragon with two Clangers sold for £3,500.
Susanna Woodgate, who curated the auction, said it was rewarding to see fans acquire items connected to characters they had grown up with.
"It was wonderful to see real fans managing to secure a keepsake of something they loved, or perhaps to share with their own children and grandchildren," she said.
The auction house described the collection as the largest body of Firmin's artwork to be offered for sale.
Some items recovered from Firmin's home will be donated to The Beaney Museum in Canterbury, which already houses a display of characters donated by his family.
Firmin, who died in 2018, co-founded Smallfilms with Oliver Postgate and helped create characters including Bagpuss, The Clangers, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine and Basil Brush.
Auctioneers noted that interest in their work experienced a revival around 2014, while Bagpuss was voted the United Kingdom's favourite children's television programme in 1999.
