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Title: Golden egg chop
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1867
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a Tait & Co. tea label with international coins spilling from a cracked golden egg; text with floral decorative border.
Date supplied by cataloger based on company history; Tait & Co. operated in Taiwan (Formosa) starting in 1867, and their foreign trade began to decline after 1895. "Choicest Formosa oolong no. Tait & Co."--text, center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 37.78 x 34.29 cm (14 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_BEV_003484
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http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5033
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Beverages
Advertising--Tea
Coins--Pictorial works
Eggs--Pictorial works
Tea trade
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Beverages
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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