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The next one in is a surprise, because it was a tea that was only offered in teabag form, "Ch'in Ch'u Oriental Blend", a mixture of Keemun, Oolong, and Pouchong with other unspecified black teas, developed by Bert Hauser of Servit Foods, that was commonly found in grocery stores. Why was it included, I wonder... it does not seem the same as the other loose teas focused on. The blend was developed in the 1950s, so this would probably have been made with Taiwanese duplicate Keemun rather than Chinese Keemun due to the U.S./China trade embargo.
The company that made it is still around, but has changed their name to Bromley Tea to focus on their current flagship product, which was the first decaffeinated tea in the United States. Bromley and Servit/Eastern were originally separate companies, not sure which bought out the other.
They also seem to have quietly retired Ch'in Ch'u, I imagine because the Orientalism of the packaging that drew in older drinkers enticed by a trip to foreign lands through a teacup was seen as embarrassing by younger generations. (Taiwanese Keemun also seems harder to find now.) It will be interesting to see if the same pattern happens in the future with pu'er tea, American children pleading with their parents to just leave their tea-pets in storage when their friends come over, not bring out the "Year of the Rat" pu'er with the rats circling in a yinyang shape, or offer to break apart a new cake with their "tea sword" pick.
Then it goes on to talk about Lady Londonderry, a Jacksons of Piccadilly blend that was retired by the Twinings buyout and that nobody seems to have made any attempts to copy, despite being frequently mentioned in later tea-books, and another named blend, Morgan Blend, made for the banker J.P. Morgan, a kind of Earl Grey & Russian Caravan hybrid. Still offered by Simpson & Vail (
https://www.svtea.com/), but not really focused on despite being one of their original blends -- I'm guessing that drinking a tea named after a Gilded Age banker is not really as fashionable as it might have been in the 1980s.
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It ends the section with groupings of proprietary teas that he didn't think needed their own section, such as Connoisseur blend, a China/Ceylon mix from Grace Rare Tea (
https://gracetea.com/), or Boston Harbour Tea, whose maker Davison Newman & Co in London had had some of their teas dumped. (The blend itself is not of Chinese teas, however.) That one is also still made, although it is no longer quite clear who owns Davison Newman as it dissolved in 2018. Mark T. Wendell runs their U.S. website (
https://bostonharbourtea.com/), perhaps they bought the blend?
Also included are Schapira Flavor Cup (they only do coffee now), Sarum's Countess of Salisbury (gone), and a few more extinct blends from First Colony, Drysdales, Ridgways, Melroses, and Jacksons, wrapping it up with some existing blends from Fortnum & Mason (
https://www.fortnumandmason.com/), such as their Queen Anne and Fortmason.