3-086-263 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Mazawattee Teas, 1898. 'MAZAWATTEE TEAS AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS! MAZAWATTEE HAS PAID FOR CUSTOMS DUTY £63,147 : 2 : 10 - THE BIGGEST TEA DUTY CHEQUE ON RECORD. £12,500 STERLING GREATER THAN ANY PAYMENT HITHERTO MADE TO HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS. The continued growth of the Largest Wholesale Tea Business in the "World has resulted in the payment of this enormous cheque for £63,147 : 2 : 10 for one Customs Clearance of British Grown DELICIOUS MAZAWATTEE TEAS. This single Customs payment represents one thousand six hundred and eighty-seven tons of Tea; six hundred thousand pounds more Tea than any previous Clearance on which Duty has been paid; and one thousand million (1,000,000,000) cups of Delicious Mazawattee. It proves that the public insists on having high-class Teas, and will not drink common rubbish. THIS UNPARALLELED OPERATION IN TEA ESTABLISHES MAZAWATTEE IN THE PROUD POSITION OF THE GREATEST WHOLESALE TEA ENTERPRISE ON EARTH. Sold in Sealed Packets and Tins only, by Grocers Everywhere. MAZAWATTEE TEA CO., LTD., LONDON. - April 28, 1898. Read Dr. Gordon Stables' opinions of Mazawattee, sent free on application.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.