Square box tea tin with red and green colored sides and orange trim. Writing on front and side with a picture of flowers and a lion. Red triangles line the corners. Print of India on lid.
tins (containers)
tin (metal)
Tin
"SAHIB/ THE MASTER TEA/GROWN IN INDIA/ ORANGE PEKOE/ TEA/ S.S. PIERCE CO./ BOSTON/ 1 LB. NET WEIGHT" (Painted)
"S.S. PIERCE CO./ BOSTON" (Painted)
"S.S.P.CO./PURITAS/ET CURA" (Painted)
"INDIA TEA" (Molded)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
CH447
S.S. Pierce Co.
6 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1589
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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