Antique Map of Dutch Fort of Jaffna Patnam, Sri Lanka Entitled Jaffnapatnam Vol. 3 p. 712 published in ‘A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, and also of the Isle of Ceylon”, it depicts a hill top perspective the fort on the coast of Sri Lanka. This […]
Magazine advertising: Tetley’s Tea Taster Trincomalee Wharf , Sri Lanka 1959 #IMG766a Magazine advertisement published in 1959 The Tetley Tea Taster goes where tiny tea leaves grow! Albert Dimes, the Tetley Tea Taster, is a man who not compromise. “Mr. Tea” prefers to taste tea right where it is grown. Here you see him at […]
No. 1. The Island of Ceylon “Pearl of the East” #IMG764a Whole set of 24 Seymour Mead & Co. LTD (TEA) Trade cards, on Ceylon, her tea and other industries “THE ISLAND OF CEYLON”, Issued in 1955. (series A) Ceylon lies immediately south of India, separated from it by the narrow Palk Strait. It is […]