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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 39148, member: 25&quot;]In the 20th.C. there has been a persistent vogue for &#039;Dickensian&#039; style illustration around Christmas time for tins of biscuits and boxes of chocolates, certainly the two corpulent old buffers might just as well have &#039;Fancy Assorted&#039; printed on the picture to complete it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt if it is any earlier than the 1950s. Both are caricatures. Neither, I&#039;d say, have any artistic merit apart from technical competence in the style.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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