Name/Title
Jos Stiner & Co.Entry/Object ID
CHSA-01128Scope and Content
Front: Illustrated in this tradecard is a seaport scene of Chinese men piling boxes of J.S. Company tea into boxes and putting them onto sampan ships. On the left side of the tradecard two men one in blue and the other in red are leading their ox drawn carriages to the center of the port. Men are piling pink, orange, and yellow boxes of tea and tieing them together while other men, on boats tied to the docks are awaiting the transport. In the background there are rolling hillsides, snow cover mountain sides and a village scene. Written on the tradecard is the following:
Jos Stiner & Co. Tea Importers, New York
Back: Object ID#, Old Accession#: TEX and the following: Jos Stiner Co Importers of Teas, Coffees, and Spices
423 Grand Street (Attorny St. (New York))
Sole Inventors and Proprietors of the
Celebrated Self-Clarifying Coffees, Manufacturers of Mustard, and Packers of Pure Spices Specialties: Aromatic Java and Mixture Rose, Tea and Elephant Java Coffee. Sugars from Best Refiners.