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I was wondering if anyone knew how old this may be?

It's a Coca-Cola chalk board with Tintin, Snowy and a baseball bat and it looks hand carved.
Many thanks, lee

I’m not certain that dating this will be easy, because I’m not certain you’ll find someone who’s seen one, let alone who will know when it was made! It sounds unusual!

Tintin has featured in Coca-Cola promotions, usually as the subject of collectable pins or badges, and there may be posters or advertising materials for these campaigns: I suppose it’s possible that the board was part of such a promotion.

However, a couple of your points trouble me: I’m not certain that if Coca-Cola was going to market a campaign it would use “hand-carved” items - mass-production would be far more probable.

The presence of a base-ball bat is also a little unusual, as it would suggest that it was intended for the American market, and I’m not sure they’d’ve used Tintin there. Canada perhaps, but it sounds unusual.

If you could describe it a bit more, it might be easier to come to some more concrete conclusion, but I get the feeling that this might be a home-made item that some café owner has constructed, or is perhaps part of a steady stream of un-authorized “craft” items which come into Europe from Africa featuring Tintin.

Let us have some more detail, and perhaps an identification can be made.

i will upload a picture tomorrow many thanks lee