| The works of Charles Dickens often conjure up images of cold
damp cheerless Nineteenth Century winter days, epitomised by Ebenezer Scrooge’s encounter with the
ghost of Jacob Marley in “A Christmas Carol”. Other novels have their dark side, Oliver Twist being
a case in point – and with Roman Polanski’s remake of David Lean’s 1948 film classic having just been
on at the cinema, let us see how the artist commissioned by B. A T. in 1919 interpreted characters
such as Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Nancy and Mr Bumble, plus many other characters from the Works of
Charles Dickens, thirty-eight in all, from a set of forty (excluding numbers 33 and 39). I’m sure the
author himself would recognise them all.
These 38 out of 40 cards by British American Tobacco Co in very good condition is catalogued at £23.00
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