Antique Tabloid Tea Tin Burroughs Welcome & Co Vintage Advertising Tin

Rare antique Burroughs Wellcome & Co. “Tabloid Tea” advertising/sample tin. A wonderful early 20th-century advertising tin for Tabloid Tea, produced by the famous pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London. The beautifully illustrated tin features the TABLOID TEA branding, a cup of tea and colourful period advertising artwork, with the original Burroughs Wellcome & Co. wording still visible around the side. “Tabloid” was originally a Burroughs Wellcome trademark associated with compressed products, including their unusual compressed tea tablets. The Science Museum records a Burroughs Wellcome Tabloid Tea tin dating 1890–1914, while contemporary advertising for the compressed tea appeared by the 1890s. This is a fantastic piece of early British advertising, pharmaceutical history and tea memorabilia, and would make a brilliant addition to a collection of antique tins.