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==See also==
*[[List of bare-knuckle boxers]]
Add to Belcher references in popular culture Charles Dickens' citing the Belcher neckerchief in The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) in which the character Richard Swiveller
says in Ch. 34: 'What shall I be next? Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the
order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted Belcher handkerchief?' <ref>The Old Curiosity Shop, Wordsworth Classics, 1995 edition, p. 249, also
Note 170, p. 559: Becker handkerchief: dark blue spotted handkerchief, as first won by Gentleman Jim Belcher (1781-1811), a well-known pugilist.</ref>
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