Author Archives: Silver Tips

New York Gift Show

By Silver Tips | Published: August 21, 2009

Each year, we visit the New York Gift Show in August at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.  We usually skip the January one but attend the one in August to look for treasures for the upcoming holiday season.  Not too many new things this year but Rodney and Jacque found a few interesting [...]

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New Office Progress

By Silver Tips | Published: August 15, 2009

What do they say – Couples that play together stay together?  Well, we have a new version of that.  How about, Couples who lift pallets together stay together?  Gina, our Production Manager, roped her husband Tommy into doing all the heavy lifting today and, voila! we almost have all our tea organized.  Not a small [...]

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A word from one of our most loyal customers

By Silver Tips | Published: August 15, 2009

“The anticipation is over.  The tea is in!  I would like to order 1 pound of the Darjeeling Makaibari First Flush and 2 pounds of the Darjeeling Makaibari Second Flush from the air shipment just received by Silver Tips.  Thank you for all the work you and your staff do, to bring quality teas to [...]

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Makaibari 2009 now available

By Silver Tips | Published: August 14, 2009

How auspicious that the first chests we will open at our new office & warehouse today will be the 2009 Makaibari 1st and 2nd flush.  We will be opening the season with lot DJ 14/09 which is the first flush and DJ 110/09 which will be the second flush. In Darjeeling, each day’s manufacture is [...]

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Move, Day 1

By Silver Tips | Published: August 13, 2009

We have technically moved but it’s anyone’s guess where everything is. Damage was minimal, the planning paid off but finding any one specific tea tomorrow is going to be fun. Day 1 – we set up computers, celebrated when we got dial tone, built some chairs and stood back and looked on in shock as [...]

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