Trade token (obverse), Of India & China Tea Mart, Gallowgate, Glasgow

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This is the obverse of a brass ten penny trade token of the India and China Tea Mart in the Gallowgate in Glasgow.

The obverse has '10d' surrounded by the text 'Dividend/Tea Warrant'.

Trade tokens were used by tea importers as adverts. By the beginning of the 20th century a handful of Scottish companies came to control over 60 per cent of the output of Indian tea.

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• Online ID: 000-100-048-201-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.1967.673
• Date: 18th/19th century
  
• Material: Inscription: Obv. 10D / DIVIDEND / TEA WARRANT / Rev. THE INDIA AND CHINA TEA MART / 508 GALLOWGATE
  Trade token
  
• Dimensions: 25 mm D
  
• What: Trade token
  
• Subject: Trade tokens
  
• Who: India and China Tea Mart (Issuer)
  
• Where: Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, 508 Gallowgate
  
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• Description: Circular brass tenpenny trade token of The India and China Tea Mart, Gallowgate, Glasgow
  
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