Brooke Bond & Company, the former manufacturer of PG Tips (now owned by Unilever), was founded in 1869 by Arthur Brooke and has been using collectibles to promote its products for decades. One of those collectibles is the picture card books that were included in packages of teabags. The picture cards and related booklets were …
Day: January 2, 2013
“Tea Planting in the Outer Himalayah” by Alexander Thorburn McGowan
It's not just a job. It's an adventure. We know it best as the slogan for the United States Navy. But it probably could have worked just as well about a century and a half ago for those hardy Britishers who left their homeland and made their way to India to become tea planters. One …
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