J. E. Cottier & Cos. Celebrated ‘Sphinx’ tea is used all over Tasmania (c.1893)
In Illustrated directory of Hobart: containing the names &c. [i.e. etc] of the principal business houses in the city, by Thomas Claude Wade Midwood (1854-1912)
Hobart, Mercury, [1893?]
plate 2
21.9 x 2.44 cm

The only nineteenth century example so far discovered using the shape of Tasmania is Thomas Claude Wade  Midwood’s advertisement: “J.E. Cottier & Cos. Celebrated “Sphinx” tea is used all over Tasmania”.  Tom Midwood (1854-1912) was a draughtsman, cartoonist and musician. William Moore, in The Story of Australian Art, claims him as the first native-born caricaturist.