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Anamarija Brnjarchevska

Hidden Joke: Cartoon Sketches By WW2 Soldier Dismissed By Experts Now Worth Thousands

Hilarious cartoons sketched by a World War Two soldier kept in an attic for almost 80 years are set to fetch thousands of dollars – after experts previously said they were worthless.

The Raymond Briggs-style crayon drawings provide a tongue-in-cheek look at life in a British army camp in 1943 from the perspective of the “Kamp Kat”.

They were scribbled on army-supply paper by an unnamed soldier who was killed in battle, but his cartoons were saved by a friend who brought them back to Britain after the war.

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