Original Tintin page sold for 3,94,000 euros at Paris auction

In an auction held in Paris on vember 20, an original p from a classic Tintin comic book was reportedly sold for 3,94,000 euros. p from King Ottokar's Sceptre which is eighth album of ventures of Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi me in 1938 using Indian ink, blue watercolour and white gouache. Initially, p was valued at 2,80,000 to 3,00,000 euros but was sold for far above its estimate. p shows Tintin and his dog swy trying to wrestle sceptre away from hands of thugs.

In same auction, ar drawing from 1951 fetched 62,000 euros while ar 1943 illustration of Tintin holding a model of Unicorn ship went for approximately 81,250 euros. According to international media reports Paris auction house Articurial will be organising ar auction of comic book items on vember 23 which will reportedly include a Tintin drawing from Shooting Star valued at 1,50,000 to 2,00,000 euros. Most of old Tintin cover illustrations are on display at Herge museum in Belgian town of Louvain-la-Neuve, according to a text in Herit Auctions catalogue by Philippe Goddin, who has written several books about Tintin and Herge, including a seven-volume chrology.

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First published "Tintin" cover sold for $1.1 mn

Back in June, an original drawing used for first published "Tintin" cover was also sold at auction in Dallas for $1.12 million at  Herit Auctions house. illustration, by Tintin creator Herge ( pseudonym of Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi), shows plucky young reporter sitting on a tree stump carving a makeshift propeller for his plane after original was damd in a rough landing somewhere in Soviet Union. His faithful dog Swy (Milou in original French) sits and watches, bandd from tail to se. drawing sold was in India ink and gouache, was signed by Herge. A Herit Auctions spokesman reportedly said that illustration, which turned up in Brussels, was one of "rare cover illustrations signed by Herge in private hands," as well as oldest.

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