Hi Trish,

Which museum are you referring to?

The old tea packaging I have seen was in the Virginia City, Montana's
Chinese Store, and it was in wooden crates, or cardboard boxes.  I don't
recall ever seeing references to artifactual remains of tea packaging in any
of the archaeological reports that I use for Chinese sites.
Contact (or I will if you wish) Priscilla Wegars at the Asian Comparative
Collection in Moscow, Idaho, at [log in to unmask]; or call the local
Chinese Historical Society Museum at 619 338-9888.  At any rate, I'd be
interested in whatever you find out.

Susan Walter
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Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:45 PM
Subject: Chinese tea tins


> A local museum has an opium tin displayed and labeled "Chinese tea tin".
> Before I tell them they are wrong, I wanted to research chinese tea
> packaging.  I did a quick internet search but couldn't find anything that
> specifically addressed historic packaging of Chinese tea.  Could someone
> tell me how tea was packaged?  Thanks so much.
>
> Trish Fernandez