Tea Caddies
Containers for keeping dry tea leaves, now called tea caddies, were a fashionable accessory during the eighteenth century. Tea was also very expensive at that time and was heavily taxed, so the antique silver tea caddies we see today reflected the value of the contents.
Caddy is taken from The Malay word cati, which was a weight by which tea was first purchased. As tea became a cheaper commodity, the use of silver tea caddies declined through the nineteenth century, until more were created again by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Smaller caddies fashioned on earlier designs became popular again and are highly collectible today
by William Aitken, Chester 1900
by Richard Sibley 11, London 1864.
by Nathan & Hayes, Chester 1895.
by Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1901.
by Nathan & Hayes, Chester 1901.
by Thomas Bradbury, London 1900.
by George Nathan & Ridley Hayes, Chester 1897.
by Robert Hennell 1 & Samuel Hennell, London 1803.
by John Parker and Edward Wakelin, London 1770.
