A copy of the album of Tintin We went to the moonSigned by Hergé and six astronauts from Apollo missions were sold at auction on Sunday for a record amount of 71,000 euros (about 116,000 Canadian dollars), the French newspaper reports Le FigaroField
The auction of the album, the reprint of 1962, had a great interest in the online sales platform Catawiki. Mark Tussen, an expert with whom he consulted Le FigaroHe calculated that the object will find shields for 32,000 euros (52,266 Canadian dollars). It was finally sold more than doubled.
“This is the largest auction of comics in recent years related to Tintin. The proof that this is a museum work, ”Tussen said on French daily life.
It should be said that this copyWe went to the moonSigned Hergé, far from a regular album. Its owner, the Belgian collector and patron of the Astronauts scholarships fund, gathered in the period from 2009 to 2015 a signature of six astronauts from Apollo's missions, including one of the Old Drill Bazz himself.
Sale also includes photos, VIP Pass and original documents.
