Kuifje, Kuifjesbonnen - 1 Board game - Lombard via Kuifjesbonnen - 1956

Background
This is "Tintin's Goose Game" by Lombard from 1956, the Dutch-language version. This board game, featuring many comic characters from the then-weekly Tintin magazine, was not sold in shops at the time: you could only obtain it by sending in a number of Tintin coupons by mail or exchanging them in person at one of the then-existing department stores L'Innovation. There was a wide range of items you could save up with these coupons. The coupons themselves appeared on packaging of all kinds of branded products, in the Tintin weekly and in Lombard’s albums.
The goose game was first mentioned in Tintin magazine issue No. 52 of 1956, and again in No. 1 of 1957. In issue No. 2 of 1957 it received its own advertisement under the heading "New!", oddly with a photo of the French version ("Notre jeu de l'oie Tintin/Milou"; see my latest photo). In the first half of 1957 the game was mentioned several times as one of the premiums. However, as so many new items were added, the game was hardly mentioned in the second half of 1957.

The board game
The board consists of a core made of two cardboard slabs laid side by side with a narrow gap (the joint) between them, allowing the board to hinge. On the outside red bookbinder fabric (likely cotton) is stretched: a single continuous piece over both slabs and the joint, turned under around the edge and glued. The emblem Timbre Tintin – Tintin’s Coupon on the front and the list of brands on the back are pressed into the cloth with a heated metal stamp and gold foil (foil stamping), making them slightly recessed.
On the inside one large sheet of paper is glued over the joint. That sheet is a few millimeters smaller than the opened slabs, so a thin red fabric edge remains visible around the outside. The playing sheet is printed in color offset; the color fields show halftone dots. Because the paper runs across the joint and is less flexible than fabric, it tends to crack lengthwise at that point after repeated opening and closing over time.

Version and features
Because Tintin appeared in Dutch and French in the weekly, there existed a Dutch-language and a French-language version of the board game. The gold emblem is bilingual, so only the playing sheet had to be printed in two language versions.

Condition
The game is in very good condition with signs of use. The colors of the playing sheet are fresh and bright, and the gold print is complete and shiny. The corners of the slabs show moderate wear, but with a small piece of exposed cardboard visible on two corners. The cloth at the ends of the joint is slightly more worn and lightly cracked. On the front board there are faint white areas. On the back board there are a few light creases in the cloth; these appear to date from the gluing of the fabric to the cardboard at the binder.
The playing sheet has intact outer edges. Along the joint runs a long crease with fine cracks. At the top of the joint there is a crack of a few centimeters in the paper, at the bottom a few smaller cracks. When closed, the board is slightly hollow/convex.

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