tea brick

Two tea brick which have been associated by number but do not seem to be related. One of four joined sections with circular and rectangular designs impressed (the latter are indistinct) with a paper label on the reverse which reads "said to have come from Pompeii, Westbrook." The other with an impression of a Chinese character on it in an oval depression and two small holes close to the middle of the edge on the left hand side.

For more on teabricks as currency, see Wolfgang Bertsch, 2006, 'The Use of Tea Bricks as Currency among the Tibetans', European Association for the Research, Collection and Preservation of Original and Curious Money, No. 75

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1976.81
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 9.252 x 7.0866 in.; 235 x 180 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
plant material
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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