3-086-382 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for the United Kingdom Tea Company, 1898. 'MEMENTO - A life-like Portrait in Eleven Colours...of the late Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE will be presented for one week by the United Kingdom Tea Company to all purchasers of the Company's Teas. No more speaking likeness of England's great Statesman has ever been produced. Its highly artistic finish will render it a valuable and interesting adornment to either palace or cottage. Mr. Gladstone, by his persistent efforts, reduced the duty on Tea from a burdensome impost to a comparatively nominal charge. He was thus a true friend to Tea-drinkers, enabling delicious Teas to be brought within the reach of all. UNITED KINGDOM TEA COMPANY have the greatest pleasure in offering copies of this magnificent Portrait to their Customers...These Teas have been supplied for many years to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, to the Duke of Connaught, to the House of Commons, to the Imperial Institute, to the London and North-Western Railway Co.'s, the Great Western Railway Co.'s, and the Great Northern Railway Co.'s Hotels...to upwards of a thousand other Hotels; to numbers of Clubs, Colleges, Hospitals, Schools, and Public Institutions...TEA IMPORTERS AND BLENDERS, Offices: 21, MINCING LANE, LONDON, E.C.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.