Part of my research is into the #Iranian merchant community in #Shanghai in the 1930s. This is an ad for "Nemazee & Co", a trade company owned by a #Shiraz native and based in Shanghai, placed in an expat newspaper. 1/

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The company, headed by H.M.H. Nemazee, played an important role in the Asian tea trade:

"Mr. Nemazee was formerly head of the firm of H. M. H Nemazee & Sons, which he founded in 1893. Prior to that date, green tea was shipped overland by camel caravans through India and... 2/

...Afghanistan to the markets of Central Asia. Coming
to Shanghai for the autumn races, Mr. Nemazee soon came to the conclusion that
if the tea were packed in cases and shipped by way of the Black Sea, it would arrive in better condition...His commercial activities covered... 3/

...a wide field, and extended to the control of a large fleet of fourteen steamers plying between the China coast and Arabia." 4/