Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Laden!

This 1920 ad for Baker's Chocolate is interesting:



It seems like a familiar scene until you think, "Wait! That's not Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim!"

It's the typical Cratchit pose, but the carrier looks like Scrooge and the carrie-ee looks like Little Red Riding Hood?

Maybe it's not really LRRH, but a similar looking character did pop up in a Baker's ad the year before:




And a couple of years earlier saw a grown Red in this 1916 ad:



Yes, please, to the Christmas dainties!

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