TEST Tea Boxes

Tea Boxes 

Boston, 1873 

Paper, tea  

Gift of Miss Anne F. Caryl 

Estate of Miss Frances Greely Stevenson 

Gift of Miss Mary Eustis 

At the centennial celebration of the Boston Tea Party in 1873, Boston’s Oriental Tea Company sold souvenir boxes of tea. The company urged purchasers to preserve the box “and present it in person, or through your descendants, at the next Centennial Anniversary of the day.” Historic New England received multiple donations of these boxes over the next several decades.