00:02two original illustrations from the rudard kipling's the jungle book were lost for over a
00:09century have been discovered i love these kind of stories where like people who have had something
00:15passed down or it's been in their house for years and they're like i wonder what this is
00:19well two people in london realized that two of their pictures that have been passed through
00:24their family and been hanging in their home for years and years and years were original
00:28illustrations to the original jungle book now there's an original set of 16 of these illustrations
00:36right so the movie that you and i grew up watching yeah it's based on a story that was written
00:41you
00:41know 100 years ago right yeah oh now i know that i didn't know it either right yeah so 16
00:47illustrations
00:47were original they've only discovered six of the 12 two of which were just discovered over the
00:53weekend wow so they're still missing half of them and four other surviving illustrations are now
00:59split between private collections the natural history museum and the national trust so these are
01:06really really big and important illustrations and people are still looking for them so london auctioners
01:14are offering both works at twenty thousand dollars each but now they're saying well i'm not sure if
01:21we're gonna actually sell them we're not sure what to do the watercolors were created back in 1903
01:27i mean some are even saying that it's a bare necessity to find these other books
01:32you
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