Title:
[English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Wholesale Society tea game card set]
Creator/Contributor:
English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Wholesale Society, creator, publisher.
Abstract:
Complete set of numbered cards issued by the English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Society pertaining to the history of
the British tea trade and international tea culture. Fronts of cards are illustrated by various subjects, including teapots
from China and England, tea bowls from Japan, the clipper tea ships Cutty Sark and Lightning, scenes of tea distribution and
sales in London, early British tea advertisements, and scenes of tea drinking in Japan and China. Back of each card includes
an extensive description of the subject printed on front, and the text: English & Scottish Joint C.W.S. tea is filling the
nation's teapot.
Date:
1935 (issued)
Subject:
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Tea trade -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works
Tea -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works
Tea -- Japan -- Pictorial works
Tea -- China -- Pictorial works
Thé -- Commerce -- Grande-Bretagne -- Ouvrages illustrés
Tea
Tea trade
China
Great Britain
Japan
English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Wholesale Society -- Pictorial works
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Purchase ; From Kevin Jackson ; 2015.
The English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Wholesale Society's printing house was in Longsight, Manchester, where it printed
several sets of cards pertaining to the British tea trade in the 1930s (cf. http://www.wopc.co.uk/uk/cws/).
English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Wholesale Society tea game card set, BANC PIC 2015.074, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphic
Pictorial works.
Collecting cards.
Game cards.
Physical Description:
print
12 prints in 1 folder : color lithographs ; 9 x 7 cm (game card format)
Language:
English
Origin:
California