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We have just moved into an old family home in the French part of Switzerland. We were tidying up an old library and stumbled across a manila folder with Hergé written on the front and a couple of pages inside. We think it could have been there for around 20-30 years. There is small writing printed inside; "Projet pour les planches n 1 et 2 de Tintin et L'Alph Art".

It's hard to see how these were made. They look like pencil originals, but of course I doubt that would be the case, so it's certainly well reproduced. The text is all exactly as he wrote/scribbled it, which is in French of course.

If anyone could enlighten us, that would be good.

You have found a folder containing facsimile reproductions of the first two "crayonnes" (penciled pages) of Tintin et l’Alph-Art, which were issued as a free gift to those who subscribed to the complete works of Hergé published in the Eighties by a company called Rombaldi.

It was distributed in 1985, and eventually became a 13 volume series - completed by a special edition of Alph-Art, with an extended preface, in 1987.

Today the portfolio with the pages is worth a maximum of 20 euros.