Tea Package

Object/Artifact

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Sidney Museum and Archives

Name/Title

Tea Package

Entry/Object ID

2006.044.001

Description

006.44.1 Oblong pasteboard container for one pound of loose black tea. Off-white background with red and black printing. One face printed: “Select Black/Lipton/Tea” with a head-and-shoulders stylized b-w drawing of a mustachioed and goatee-d Sir Thomas Lipton, wearing a suit jacket, bow tie and dark captain’s or commodore’s peaked cap, with a cap badge of an anchor, holding a tea cup and signed with the facsimile signature of “Thomas J Lipton” [see comments] Same information in French on another face. Another face has four instructions in both English and French for “How to Make a Perfect Cup of Tea”. Another face, in English only, has a printed circle and “Net Wt. 1 LB.” where the price would be noted and “This Famous Tea Comes in Convenient Tea Bags, too!”. End flaps, one in English, one in French give previously-stated information, as well as, “Thomas J. Lipton, Limited, Canada”.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Wickett, Garry and Adele

Notes

Mode of Acquisition: gift

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

package, tea package

Created By

Jones, Isabel

Create Date

May 30, 2007

Updated By

Michael Goodchild

Update Date

July 12, 2025