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Hi! I'm wondering about these two pieces I got at an auction.
They are in paper, and I am attaching links to a photo of them, and another of the page that they are from.

Picture 1: The paper items
Pict 2: The relevant page (Sorry for the Swedish - the items are not in Swedish as you can see).

Never seen something like this before, so all help would be much appreciated.
Just contact me for more info , thank you all for your help...

They appear to be printing plates; off-set printing can be done from them.

Did the auction say nothing else about age, or where they had come from?

They came from a Tintin/ Gaston/ Marsupilami collector; everything was mint in plastic and 1st edition stuff.
I've tried to look them up, but they seem more than a little rare...
It was a web auction in Sweden.

They seem to me to be at least 30-40 years old, but I'm a total noob.

Just saw them and thought, "That looks quite odd, could be worth a lot, or nothing".
There are numbers on them if it helps... 108 and 109.

There's not really a way of cataloguing this kind of material, as it's not made for sale to the public, and never intended to leave the print-works, so it's not very surprising that there's no information.

Any clue why those figures?

Sadly this kind of thing is probably more likely the latter - they have a curiosity value, but unless they have some other characteristic (they were very old and for the first ever printing, or showed an edition that was never released), it's not a market that has many customers.