Stash Tea Company

It is already 2 years ago that I started with the “T Collectors Magazine” The
time is going very fast. And so we have now the 9th edition from our magazine. Also
the number of members is growing and growing. We started two years ago with 76
and now we have 168 members. But maybe it are still much more because you can
also download it from my website and this persons I don’t know. So in a short time
this will be changed in only see the front of the magazines and one of the magazines
is to download. This means that if you will have the other magazines too, than you
had to write me an e-mail. But for now themagazines are still standing on my
website. You can find them on www.teabagonline.nl/magazine.pdf .
The 4th international teabag meeting in Prague is about a few days. I hope with a lot
of collectors from abroad. This time I can not be present at this meeting, but for
next magazine it would be very nice if one of you could make an report with some
pictures from this meeting. In next magazine I will made an overview from the new lipton’s with a proverb.
When you have teabags from this serie please let me know which proverbs do you have and by which taste
this proverb belongs.
You can you read in this magazine about the new teabags, differences of the teabags, my story from a label
collector from the USA , the Stash tea company, the Mate and ofcourse part 3 of the teabag catalogue.
Don’t hesitate to send me articles or ideas for the magazine, because this magazine is for all teabag
collectors and also made by all the teabag collectors. I wish you a lot of fun with reading the 9th edition
from our “T Collectors Magazine”
Index
2. Hot News
Marjoke Rozier
3. New teabags –
Marjoke Rozier
Elly van der Stadt
Irene Ramp
Marcela Klemensova
Irena Petrželová
6.
My story
Don MiIller
7.
Stash Tea Company
Marjoke Rozier
8.
The Mate
Joke Denissen
10. Differences
Irena Petrželova
Marjoke Rozier
11. Teabag catalogus – B part 3
Marjoke Rozier
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New teabags
NETHERLANDS:
CZECH REPUBLIC:
3
USA:
CANADA:
4
AUSTRIA:
GERMANY:
GREAT BRITAIN:
RUSSIA/ GERMANY:
5
M y Sto ry
TEA-LABEL
COLLECTING by
DonaId L. MilIer
In about 1962 I read an
article by a writer for the
International Herald
Tribune, Art Buchwald. He wrote that he had a
friend who was a nut (crazy) who collected tea-bag
tags. They are called tags in the US and labels
elsewhere. I said "I am a nut; I drink tea, why don't I
collect too?" That is how hobbies start. At the time I
travelled a lot as a professional photographer (I am
now retired) for advertising, corporate and magazine
clients. It permitted me many opportunities to have
different teas and collect labels. There were times I
would be in a new hotel or restaurant and wanted
water or a Coke but If I saw they had a tea label that
I didn't have, I would order tea. Many of my friends
travelled all over the world, knew of my collection
and would send me teabags. At the time, I gave
myself a rule; I had to drink the tea myself. I would
put the labels in a box and on New Years Eve, I
would spread them out on a table, eliminate
duplicates and count them. After awhile, the table
wasn't big enough and I moved to the floor. People
did think I was crazy but this became a New Year's
Eve ritual. Years earlier, my wife and I were in a
taxi returning from a party, was almost killed and
decided on the spot that we were not going out on
New Years Eve anymore. Anyone was welcome to
come to our home and that is where they knew what
they would see; me on the floor sorting and
counting tea labels. Over the years three things
happened that changed my collecting. I started to
put the labels into plastic slide pages which
permitted me to eliminate duplicates as I went
along. It also permitted me to organize them by US
and the rest of the world. Suddenly it gave my
collection a whole different look. I could now see
styles, design, series and images. It was very much
like stamp collecting which I started as a child and
still do. They helped me to learn about countries,
history and geography. The same became true of
tea-label collecting. The second important event that
changed my collecting was coming in contact with
Marjoke. One day I was on the Internet and came
upon a tea company that had a chat room. I wrote
that I collected Teabag tags, did anyone else?
Marjoke responded and said she did not collect
labels but collected teabag envelopes. I had never
heard of that. She then sent me labels and I sent her
envelopes. I told my friends who travelled that I
now needed the envelopes too. The same happened
with some of her friends she put me in touch with. A
lady in Poland also contacted me and said that she
and her son collected teabag labels. Another trading
situation arose. All this caused more changes in my
collecting. I now eliminated my rule of having to
drink the tea myself. I also started a second book for
my slide pages. One for the labels that I had
collected and the other for what other people had
sent me. It also changed my New Years Eve ritual.
All I had to do was count them by pages since I had
eliminated duplicates when I put them into the
pages. And then, something else happened that
added another dimension to my collecting. As I was
looking at the pages over and over again, I saw
certain common themes repeating themselves on the
labels. After about a month of looking at the pages, I
made a list of the themes. They included Animals,
Asia, Children, Coats of Arms, Different Teas,
Great Britain, Heads, Hotels, Initials, Lipton,
Modern Design, Names, Numbers, Pots, Shapes,
Ships, Tea Leaves, The Other Side and then Red,
Yellow, Blue and Green. Suddenly I had something
new to think about. What could I do with this
became the new challenge?
What I decided on took months to execute. I created
folders on the computer for each of the themes.
Then I scanned each label and put them in the
proper folder. It then became time to make a
pleasing arrangement of good design of the labels
on a page. This became one of the most creative and
enjoyable experiences I have ever had. It was
making "something out of nothing" that I had done
in photography for years for my clients.
The next step was what should be done with them?
My wife who is an interior designer said they had to
go on the wall of our living room. The pages needed
very narrow frames and since we couldn't find the
right ones, I made them out of mahogany. It is quite
a wall, all from teabag labels. I also put the pages
into a hook and give them to friends. Some have
now agreed that I am not so crazy after all. There
are always others who will never change their mind.
the frames with the tags on the wall in the living room
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Sta sh Tea C o m p a n y
The Stash Tea Company
is a privately-held
company headquartered
in Tigard, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.
Founded in 1972, Stash Tea originally operated
out of an old Portland Victorian style house,
supplying loose herbal teas and bulk herbs to
natural food stores. Starting in 1975, the
company broadened its focus to include bagged
teas and then began to sell a full line of
traditional, specialty blend and herbal teas
directly to fine restaurants and through a mail
order catalogue to consumers. Today, Stash
Tea is enjoying steady growth and has become
one of the largest specialty tea companies in
the United States. Stash Tea is also available in
Canada and in several
foreign countries. The
company derives its name
from an entertaining aspect
of tea folklore. In earlier
centuries, tea was a
valuable commodity
traditionally transported by
clipper ship. The ship's
captain often was presented with some of the
finest teas for his personal use. This supply was
his "stash," stowed carefully as his "private
reserve." Today, the term still is used to
denote anything put away carefully because of
its preciousness. The Stash Tea Company offers
a complete line of specialty teas: traditional
black teas, flavoured and spiced teas, herbal
teas, green teas, white teas, organic teas, rare
and exotic teas and specialty iced teas.
A message printed on the back of every Stash
Tea envelope invites consumers to send for a
free catalogue. As a result, Stash Tea has
created an enviable database of loyal
customers from this "no cost advertising" over
the years. Stash is also known for its pioneering
work in helping to establish tea as a beverage
of choice in restaurants, and helped pioneer
the growing
and cultivation of Oregon peppermint for tea,
working with mint farmers back in the early
1970s. Stash was also one of the early web
pioneers with a web presence beginning in
1995. Stash Tea's emphasis on quality products
and innovative marketing strategy has garnered
widespread recognition for the company. Stash
Kashmiri Chai was selected as a finalist for the
2000 NASFT (National Association For The
Specialty Food Trade) Product Awards
Competition in the Outstanding Beverage
category. The competition is an annual event
and is considered one of the most prestigious
product competitions in the specialty foods
industry. Stash received the Award of
Excellence from the Fine Beverage & Food
Federation for its Earl Grey and Premium
Estate Iced Teas. Stash has also garnered
numerous Beverage Packaging Global Design
Awards including a Silver Award for its
Christmas Teas packaging in 2003; another
Silver Award for the redesign of the Stash
Premium Tea line in 2002, and for Stash
Premium Loose Teas in 2001; Best of Show
Award for the Stash Teas of India line in 2000;
and a Silver Award for the Yamamotoyama line
of authentic teas of China and Japan in 1998.
Marjoke Rozier
Source: The internet.
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T h e M ate
The plant.
Yerba mate (Ilex Paraguayensis) belongs to the
holly family. The tree is evergreen and 8 to 10
meters of height. The flowers are white and
small and bloom in the South American spring,
from September to December.
Only the young leaves and the terminal buds
are used for mate.
The tree grows in fertile soil and needs a humid
and hot climate.
The seeds of the yerba tree have a very tough
coating. They can only germinate when they
have been eaten by birds. The acid digestive
juices of the birds remove the coating.
How to make yerba.
First the leaves are dried by means of a fire
around the leaves. They are fermenting, but do
not loose their green colour. Afterwards the
leaves are dried by air. The yerba is grounded
and packed in bags to rest for 9 months.
Then the leaves are crushed and blended with
other yerba’s. There is a big (caá guazú) and a
small yerba mix ( caá mini). The small one does
not contain branches.
The origin.
The Indians were the first who drank mate.
They drank directly from an earthen ware pot,
without using a bombilla.
The
Spaniards
adopted
mate
almost
immediately and called it “Herb from
Paraguay”. They did not know that the plant
was a tree.
The drink has a beneficial effect to the
intestines, and also sharpens the memory.
In the middle of the 18’century every
repectable family in Buenos Aires had a special
servant to make the mate.
From the Indians to the European immigrants
all adopted the beverage. It is now considered
the national drink for young and old.
The word “mate”.
The toucan favours the seeds of the yerba mate
tree.
The Guarani Indians, who lived in Argentina and
the south of Paraguay, taught the Spaniards to
drink mate. They called it caáigua. The Indians
in the north of Argentina called the beverage
“mati”.
The Spaniards adopted this word for the tea as
well as for the cup.
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Mate can also be drunk in a cup with hot water
and is then called Mate Cocido.
How to drink mate?
The most common mate also called matero is a
gourd, which is dried and hollowed out. The
mate was identified by carving a name or a sign
in it.
When the mate became more luxury the
silversmith started decorating the cup.
Sometimes the whole vessel was made of
silver, but almost always in the form of a
gourd. They can also be made from the horn of
a buffalo.
While visiting Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay
we saw many mate drinkers. In Argentina and
Uruguay the mate is drunk with hot water. It is
very common to see people walking the streets
with a mate and a vacuum flask.
Also on a long journey no one has to be
deprived of his or hers favourite beverage. At
filling stations you can get not only gasoline,
but there are also large containers with hot
water to fill the vacuum flasks.
In Paraguay a kind of infusion is drunk cold
also. On every corner of the streets there are
women selling herbs to every ones liking. They
cut the leaves and ground them. It is possible
to make a selection of the herbs. We
recognized one as ginger root. The grounded
herbs are put in cold water. In that case the
beverage is called “tereré”.
Some materos and bombillas.
Left an antique mate.
The bombilla, a straw with at the end a kind of
strainer, is used to drink the mate. So the
leaves stay behind.
The taste is bitter and resembles Chinese tea.
Text: Joke Denissen-Gruter
Source: The Mate , Maizal, Buenos Aires.
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D if f e r e n c e s o n t h e t e a b a g s
Lancaster :
Frontsite: the same
Backsite: different languages
Germany: Teekanne
Frontsite: the same as the
old one
Back site: instruction how to
make the tea is different
from the old one
Usa: Bigelow
Frontsite: the same
Backsite: differences in
numbers and blocks. White
numbers, black numbers, no
number. White square or
white rectangle.
USA: Bigelow
Frontsite: the same
Backsite: white number in
the dark green square or
under the dark green square.
USA: Bigelow
Frontsite: the same
Backsite: small and big white
number. K symbol in the
middle or on the under site
of the envelop
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Teabag Catalogue
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BIGUERLAI
Slimming tea
green
black silhouet from woman
chinese en engelse tekst
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BIG 4 - holiday parks
Tea
white
yellow frame/ big4 in green
affordable in a BIG way
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BIG WINNER
Earl Grey
white
black weapon with golden dragon
yellow/ only text
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B I J A - HEALING TEAS from AROUND the WORLD
Caffeine Free ~Certified Organic ~made with Organic Herbs
Cold Snap
CO
l.yellow.white
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
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Cranberry with rooibos CO
Deep Cleanse
OH
Double Ginger CO
Double Ginseng CF
Lemon Ginger Echinacea CF
Rooibos Anti - Oxidant CO
Sleep Well
CF
Echinacea Edelberry CF
l.yellow.white
l.yellow.white
l.yellow.white
l.yellow.white
l.yellow.white
l.yellow.white
l.yellow.white
l.yellow.white
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
1.800.446.2110 www.florahealth.comin french
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
1.888.436.6697 www.florahealth.comin french
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BJK -1903
Besiktas Cay Keyfi
black/ red
see picture
same as frontsite
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BILJANA
bilana caj
green
metvica/nana
only text
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BI-LO
Orange Pekoe Tea
Irish Breakfast Tea
orange
red
bi lo plus in flag
taste in green letters
delicate, unique flavour
white flap/rest red
white
ɍȾɐ-Kapkage/rose boom
same as frontside
BIO(program)
0mid.lg
ɍȾɐ
11
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BIO 3
Control de peso
l.green
product naturel - nuevo
Bio3 Espana
0 short
0short
BIO-ACTIVE
Assam
Ceylon
groen
green
Premiun Black Tea
Premiun Black Tea
www.bio-active.pl
nothing
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BIOBIO
krautertee
white/ green
bio produkte fur alle
hergestellt fur Plus
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Biofix - herbatka owocowa
brzoskwiniowa/ perzik
dzika róza/ rozenbottel
malinowa / framboos
poziomkowa / aardbei
wieloowocowa/ vruchten
wisniowa/ kers
yellow
red
red
red
red
purple
Biofluid
Biofluid
Biofluid
Biofluid
Biofluid
Biofluid
big BIOfix
big BIOfix
big BIOfix
big BIOfix
big BIOfix
big BIOfix
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BIOFIX _ ADMIRAL TEA
Pu Erh tea
Rooibos
orange
red
sailingship
sailingship
only text
only text
ceylon cha
green
factory fresh organic green tea
only textt (fair trade
labeling………
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BIOFORCE
Golden Grass Tea
green
0long
BIOFORM
Kruiden melange
l.brown
Melange d'Herbes
Natural Formula
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BIOLABOR
Grun Tee
white
kauwtablet
nothing
BIOFOODS
Ŷ mid.lg
12
0long
BIOLYS
geen smaak aanduiding
blue
3 flowers
nothing
BIOLYS - Bio Tilman op klep
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
0long
Eucalyptus
blue
Groene thee
orange
Groene thee
blue
Groene thee met citrusvruchtenorange
Groene thee met munt
blue
Kamille
blue
Kamille
green
Linde
blue
Linde Sinaasappelblad
blue
Munt
blue
Netel
blue
Rode wijnstok & rode vrucht
red
Rode wijnstok & rode vrucht
blue
Tijm
blue
Tijm
green
Venkel
blue
Ijzerkruid
blue
1 language
4 languages
4 languages
2 languages
2 languages
3 languages
3 languages
4 languages
3 languages
4 languages
4 languages
2 languages
2 languages
4 languages
4 languages
4 languages
4 languages
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
3 cups in mid. 10 min
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
Bio Tilman
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BIOPHARMA - Arzneimittel - alleen tekst
Erkältungstee
blue
Husten-und Bronchialtee
blue
Johanniskrauttee
blue
Magen- und Darmtee
blue
Schalaf- und Nerventee
blue
Blasen- und Nierentee
blue
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
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BIO SEREINE
la tisane bio du soir
white
super diet
l.mint
emagrecedor
only text
BIOSLIM
0mid.lag Cha
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BIOVER
biover
transparant
biover on tag
same
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BIO VILLAGE
Thé Darjeeling
white
yellow and green bow
same
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BIRDEM
Ihlamur
Kusburnu
Adacayi
Bogurtlen
Classic tea
Earl Grey tea
Ceylon Tea
brown
red
lila
purple
red
red
red
yellow striped
grey striped
green striped
flap under
flap under
flap under
flap under
flap under
flap under
flap under
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BJORG
Thé Darjeeling
Thé Earl Grey
Thé Earl Grey
Thé Vert
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow
origine Ceylan Jardin Siripala
origine Ceylan Jardin Siripala
more yellow
origine Ceylan Jardin Siripala
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
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0long
0long
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BJORG
Aide-Minceur
Aide-Minceur
sommeil
digestion
white
white
white
white
blue beam-no logo
blue beam-no logo
blue beam-no logo
blue beam-no logo
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
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BJORG
The vert
white
big logo
Pure Ceylon Organic Green Tea
0short
0short
0short
0short
0short
0short
0short
0short
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BLASER
Ceylon
Darjeeling
Earl grey
Fruchtetee
Gruntee
Hagebutten
Kamillen
Linden
Pfefferminze
Verveine
l.brown
olivegreen
grey
orange
green
red
yellowgreen
yellowgreen
mintgroen
blue
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
taste in oval
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
same as frontside
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0short
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BLEIB- fit
Husten- und Bronchialtee
Fastentee
Magen- und darmtee
Nieren- und Blasentee
Schlaf- und Nerventee
white
white
white
white
white
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
text in blue
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Blue Valley Finest blend of top quality teas yellow
tea
orange
blue valley in rode cirkel
3 green figures
the house of coffes
the house of teas
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BLUE WILLOW
Earl Grey
Jasmine
Minty Green
Tea House Blend
World Peace
Wu Wei
greyblue
blue
green
rosebrown
d.lila
orange
black leaves/ world tea imp
black leaves/ world tea imp
black leaves/ world tea imp
black leaves/ world tea imp
black leaves/ world tea imp
black leaves/ world tea imp
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
brand in yellow oval
text
yellow
green
red
plant/ ship in circle
plant/ ship in circle
plant/ ship in circle
boat brand in boog
boat brand in boog
boat brand in boog
beige
2 red vertical stripes
tekst in groen
BOARDROOM COFFE & TEA
0mid. Lg choice tea
black
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BOAT BRAND
Manzanilla
Menta Poleo
Te
Bobby's
0md.long Rosa Mosqueta
0long
0long
0long
0long
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De Boer
Aardbeien
Bosvruchten
Citroen
Sinaasappel
Engelse Melange
red
d.blue
yellow
orange
green
een kop thee
een kop thee
een kop thee
een kop thee
een kop thee
no number
0short
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0short
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DE BOER
Bosvruchten
Citroen
Sinaasappel
Thee
blue
yellow
orange
d.yellow
THEE
THEE
THEE
THEE
THEE
THEE
THEE
THEE
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BOH
Cameronian
Cameronian
Cameronian
gold
white
white
Gold Blend
sealed for freshness = bruin
sealed for freshness =rood
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BOH
Earl Grey with Tangerine
Lemon with Mandarine
Lychee with Rose
Mango
Passion fruit
Lime and Ginger
gold/purple
gold/orange
gold/green
gold/green
gold/rose
gold/green
Seri Songket
Seri Songket
Seri Songket
Seri Songket
Seri Songket
Seri Songket
same
same
same
same
same
same
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BOH -ice tea
Lemon - Lime
Orchard Splash
Peach
Blaccurrant
Lemon - Lime
red
red
red
red
red
fruits
fruits
fruits
fruits
limon much greener
only text
only text
only text
only text
only text
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BOH - instant tea
The Campuran Segera
3-in-1/ landscape
only text
95631
95632
95633
95630
15
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BOLDOFLORINE
Bonne tisane pour le foie
Bonne tisane pour le foie
white
white
woman gives tea
woman gives tea
short text innerside
longer text innerside
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BOLDOFLORINE
Foie, digestion constipation
yellow
Mode D'emploi
Boldo Florine op klep
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BOMBASTUS
Brennessel
Fenchel
Kamillenbluten
Johanniskraut
Lindenbluten
Mistelkraut
Salbeiblatter
Sennesblatter M
Abfuhrtee Bombastus
Blasen- und Nierentee
Husten- und Bronchialtee
Hirtentaschelkraut
Nerven- und Schlaftee Bomb
Wermutkraut
Lowenzahn
Magen- und darmtee
Birkenblatter
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
white
nr 1
nr 2
nr 3
nr 4
nr 5
nr 6
nr 8
nr 11
nr 13
nr 15
nr 16
nr 17
nr 23
nr 26
nr 69
nr 73
nr 74
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
0foil
0foil
0foil
0foil
BOMBASTUS
Calcium Fruchte tee
Erfrischungstee
Erzgebirgstee
Multivitamin fruchtetee
white
white
white
white
Maracuja-Erdbeere geschmack
krautertee
krautermischung
Mango-Pfirsich geschmack
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
Heilen-plegen-leben
0short
0short
0foil
BOMBASTUS
Beruhigungdtee
Herz-Kreislauf- Tee
Nerven- und Schlaftee Bomb
white
white
white
nr 14
nr 27
nr 23
Bombastus werke….
Bombastus werke….
Bombastus werke….
0foil
0foil
BOND STREET TEA
Ceylon
Earl Grey
silber
gold
white teapot
silber teapot
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BONIFATIUS
0mid long thee
white
Monk in black
nothing
BONOMELLI
Camomilla
green
Relax miller
0short
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