The British Hong-Kong Tea Company, London

Hugh Farmer: Does anyone know if this London company had any connection to Hong Kong apart from in its name?

This advert is from 1847 courtesy of the superb British website www.gracesguide.co.uk. I don’t know where it was originally published.

Note that “Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Hotel & Boarding House Keepers …may be supplied with packages”. That leaves most of us out then.

British Hong-Kong Tea Company

This article was first posted on 1st March 2014.

See: http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/0/0e/Im1847SLCD-HK.jpg

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