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Vintage Frame & Print Taeping Merchant Ship
Christchurch, Dorset
£25
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Vintage print in original vintage wooden frame. It is a print of the of the Taeping clipper in the 1866 Great Tea Race painted by Jack Spurling.
Frame measures 27.5” x 20.25”. The frame thickness is 1.75”.
Framed by S Staples in Croydon London.
In the middle third of the19th century, the clippers which carried cargoes of tea from China to Britain would compete in informal races to be first ship to dock in London with the new crop of each season. The Great Tea Race of 1866 was keenly followed in the press, with an extremely close finish. Taeping docked 28 minutes before Ariel - after a passage of more than 14,000 miles.
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