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This figurine, carved from wood and gaudily painted, is Montague Tiggs, a charater in Charles Dickens' sixth novel, "Martin Chuzzlewit" which was published in monthly parts from 1843 to 1844. A con man and swindler, Tiggs first appears in the story fronting for Chevy Slyme and trying to squeeze the assembled Chuzzlewit family for money. Later he appears as head of the fraudulent Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company and has changed his name to Tigg Montague.
Tiggs is depicted wearing yellow trousers and cravat, a fitted black coat and a buff hat with a black band; he has a painted moustache a prominent sideburns.
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