Tintin 10 complete sets of chewing gum

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Hergé : 10 rare complete same sets of 64 different vignettes, edited for a contest / concours Tintin (Tim, tin tin, Kuifje, tenten) et Milou (Melou, Struppi, Bobbie) (the dog Fox Terrier) The contest was simultaneously in France, Belgium and Holland in 1964 and the company who distributed the chewing gum was RIZZLA - LACROIX. Each set has 64 different chromos which had to be collected and glued down on the right place on a poster especially editied for that...you can see one such complete set AND the form to glue them on (very rare and not included ) Each vignette (=light paper) is an image of the various designs of TINTIN and MILOU (is the French name for SNOWY), adventural scenes from the dog, captain Haddock and other heroes(character, figurinis) appearing in the outstanding albums ADVENTURES OF TINTIN. Such a complete set from KUIFJE (Dutch name of the Hero from artist Herge) must be very hard to find because these were distributed one by one in packages of chewing gum in the sixties .... MILOU bubble gum au miel pur+vitamine C. Further more, they had to be pasted (glued) down on the sheet to compete with other children to win a price ... even then it was a hard exchanging-job among kids, to find them all it took some weeks. We bought all remaining stock and when sold out, then these sets will be VERY diffcult to find complete read more

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