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Hello

I wonder if anybody here can help me? I have just bought two 70cm x 50cm limited edtion Tintin prints that are inside a card portfolio with TIntin logos. I have not yet seen them in the flesh so cannot give an exact description. The description I give below is from what I have seen from the photo of them. If you could read my descriptions below and then if you know the origins of the prints I would be grateful for any answers. Thanks in advance.

Both prints are what look to be panels from a book. Each illustration has a thin black border around it rather like a panel. The illustration on each print is in the middle with a lot of white space around it (unlike the prints of the book covers). Inside the portfolio I am told there is tissue paper that covers the prints to protect them.

One print is of Tintin in what looks to be a panel from the Blue lotus (although no such panel exists in the book). The perspective is from above as if you looking out of a the second floor of a two story building. Thats the best way I can describe it. Tintin (quite small) is walking along the quite a busy pavement, there are shops and there is a big white sign/banner hanging down from the left with red chinese lettering/characters on it. This banner obscures the head of an old man riding in a rikshaw.

The other print is of Tintin in a black car driving across railway tracks in a barron landscape (just green grass) and from the right of the picture (as you look at it) there is a black train with a cow catcher on the front bearing down on the car. Tintin is in the car on the tracks cutting across the trains path. The train looks like it is going to hit the car. The car has a trail of dust. There is quite a lot of blue sky within the picture too.

I thought both were from the Blue Lotus but having gone through the book I can't see these illustrations. I then thought the train one might come from Tintin in America but again looking through the book the illustration isn't there. From the looks of the two drawings they are from what I would say the early books ie: before Haddock

I would provide a link for the photo but I'm not sure how to do that and if it's allowed. Sorry.

Well thanks guys n gals :o) Don't worry I have now found out where the illustrations on the prints originate from. They are two of the full page illustrations used in the books after 1936 to add a bit of colour to the black and white books. One is from The Blue Lotus the other (train) is from The broken ear.

I still don't know where these were bought. The guy I bought them from got them from a boot sale or something. They may have been bought at the Centre Pompidou exhibition or another Herge exhibition.