US Gov Tea Taster 1925

[silverneedles]

Ya'll visit Shorpy's mmkay...


^ click for large size

[Chip]

Nice...I need that spinning table!

And the dude is using a scale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Victoria]

Heh, maybe he's one of your ancestors.


Nice table!

[hop_goblin]

Aren't tables that spin called "Lazy Susans"? What a job! I bet he worked on 3 hrs of sleep a day!

[Chip]

Aren't tables that spin called "Lazy Susans"? What a job! I bet he worked on 3 hrs of sleep a day!

Heh, maybe he's one of your ancestors.

No, he is one of mine. GreenTeaPower!

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[Victoria]

Hummm then how come the label says Scented Orange Pekoe?

[Chip]

Hummm then how come the label says Scented Orange Pekoe?

Which is why he looks so old and I look sooooo young for one who is several hundred years young.

Good catch. Oolong is good for the eyes and brain it seems.

[heavydoom]

nice tea cannisters!!!!!

[beecrofter]

Here is a good history of why a government agent is tasteing tea.
And a good primer on the Tea Importation Act

http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/2 ... ricia.html

[chad]

Here is a good history of why a government agent is tasteing tea.
And a good primer on the Tea Importation Act

http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/2 ... ricia.html

That was an interesting read! But then, I'm a history geek.

[Riene]

What an interesting photograph! Thanks for posting it, silverneedles! I had fun looking at the enlarged version, the canisters, the odd deep spoon, the even odder glass ampule-things filled with leaves.

I want those scales!