Early H and H Tea Tin

An early H and H Tea tin added to the collection. Tea tins are far rarer than H and H coffee tins, so every new example helps fill out the tea side of the product line. The form is a small cylindrical tin with a fluted slip-on lid, and the paper label is heavily patinated — rust speckles and a long staining streak down the face — though the ornate H & H mark, an “Orange Pekoe / Ceylon & India” banner beneath it, and a jagged lightning-bolt “TEA” wordmark are all still legible. The lettering style belongs to the paper-label era of the earliest H and H Blend coffee tins, which would place this among the earliest tea packaging the company used — predating the cleaner Art Deco Orange Pekoe carton already in the collection from San Clemente.