| Comments: This unusual trademark
name is a mixture of Hindu and Singhalese and means "Luscious
Garden", it was registered in 1887. The company produced a large
range of decorative tins over the years, but this image was by far
the most popular, the "Old folks at home". It shows a shawled
grandmother having tea with her bespectacled granddaughter; where is
the tea pot? The original painting was carried out in the 1870's and
featured Mary Anne Clarke of Islington with a neighbour's child, who
stood in for her own granddaughter Adelaide. The circumference of
the tin has a nice frieze of Edwardian children playing amongst the
letters of the words "Tea" and "Mazawattee".
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