Tea Ephemera (3 results)

Tea crate label 16.5 x 22 cms, textured cream stock, with coloured illustration and adjacent text panel in red, in very good condition. Attractive advertising ephemera for Compagnie des Antilles, a French wholesaler founded in 1884 by René Honoré Collas. The company was very successful, winning two gold medals at the Nice Exhibition of 1892.

Tea crate label 21 x 24 cms, textured cream stock, with coloured illustration and adjacent text panel in red, in very good condition. Attractive advertising ephemera for Compagnie des Antilles a French wholesaler founded in 1884 by René Honoré Collas. The company was very successful winning two gold medals at the Nice Exhibition of 1892.

A group of 11 hole-punched price-tags (in the shape of an American route shield) printed in red and black on stiff card, approx 5 x 4.5 cms, with, on the verso, Chinese text in pen and ink (2 with revised prices); one tag with white-paper laid down on the verso, the group age-toned and flecked (one tape-stained, another strengthened with brown-paper at the top), but all in sound condition. A group of vintage American price-tags in the route-shield shape, mostly relating to Chinese teas (one stating in English "Lipton Tea 52 cents"), from the condition of the tags and the text corrections, used multiple times. The tags notated in Chinese on the verso were used for an impressive range of mostly oolong varieties including Tieguanyin, Jasmine, Longjing, Wuhe and Lychee. A remarkable group of tea ephemera from an early twentieth century Chinese-American grocer based in Seattle.