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Tea box
Document Type: Artifact
Geographic Location: China
ID Number: 1984_38_2
Keywords: Orient, China, 1984.38.2
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Description:
Chinese tea box, decorated with two horses on front. Bottom reads "Per Mails Steamer, Choicest Specialty Selected First Crop Lap Sang Souchong" on bottom. By the time this tea was exported, the fastest way to get tea from China was by fast steamship, the steamship that carried the mail. The days of racing to England with the fresh tea crop under sail were gone.
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