Mazawattee Tea Lady Puppy Picnic Woods

Original antique advertising poster for Mazawattee Tea The Most Delicious Tea in the World featuring an illustration of an elegant lady in a fashionable long white summer dress sitting on a wooden bench under the shade of a tree, smiling at the viewer as she enjoys a refreshing cup of tea, holding a blue cup and a saucer with cake, teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug on a tray on one side of the bench and a flower on her sun hat on the other side, a young puppy dog wearing a blue bow looking up at her, sitting on its hind legs, with the stylised title lettering above. Established in London in 1887, Mazawattee Tea dates back to the 1850s when John Boon Densham (1814-1886) and his family started to sell loose teas from India and China; the company became the largest tea company in the world by the late 1880s but closed down after World War Two due to various issues including tea tax increases and the bombing of their factories; the name comes from the Hindi word Maza meaning pleasure and the Sinhalese word Wattee meaning garden; the company name has recently been revived with teas available to order online. Printed by Stafford & Co, Netherfield near Nottingham. Good condition, restored tears. restored creasing, restored paper loss on the top right margin, two sheet poster, backed on linen.