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London Metropolitan Archives

TEA COMPANIES


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4294

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: TEA COMPANIES

Date(s): 1833-1967

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): R M Holborn and Sons | tea and coffee merchants

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

R M Holborn and Sons are listed in the 1935 Post Office Directory as wholesale tea, coffee and cocoa dealers based at Crutched Friars, EC3, Mincing Lane House, Eastcheap, EC3 and 11 Lehman Street, E1.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This is a collection of records of various companies involved in the trading of Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and Indian teas. It consists of import registers for an un-named company, auction catalogues for private trade teas and photographs of tea plantations, possibly in Ceylon, and the offices and staff of R.M. Holborn and Sons Limited, tea and coffee merchants.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged as follows: LMA/4294/01 - import registers; LMA/4294/02 - auction catalogues; LMA/4294/03 - photographs.

Conditions governing access:

The records are open and available for consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

The records in this collection were donated to LMA by an ex-employee of R. Twinings and Company Limited.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Archive in 1999.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Auctions | Business enterprises | Enterprises
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Imports | International trade | Trade
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Plantations | Agricultural land
Tea | Plant products | Agricultural products
Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
R M Holborn and Sons | tea and coffee merchants

Places