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A box containing loose tea leaves in a crumpled piece of newspaper. Next to the box is its lid with 'Queen Mary' printed in big letters and the name and information of the confectioners 'Morley Bros' printed in small letters. On the lid someone has written 'Russian tea' in pencil.

A sample of loose leaf ‘Russian tea’

A small sample of loose-leaf tea raises more questions than can be answered: is it Queen Mary tea or Russian? Was it produced in Britain, Russia, or as the catalogue record suggests, in Tibet?

Aayushi Gupta

21 March 2023

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