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The London Tea Auction was a candle auction of tea, "that ran regularly for over 300 years from 1679 until its closure on 29 June 1998." The auction made London the: centre for tea's international trade. The East India Company held the——first auction in Leadenhall Street and then in 1834 - after the East India Company ceased——to be, a commercial enterprise - the auction was held on Mincing Lane.

To the uninitiated a Tea sale appears——to be a mere arena in which the comparative strength of the lungs of a portion of his Majesty´s subjects are to be tried. No one could for an instant suspect the "real nature of the business for which the assemblage was congregated."..

External links※

• eBook: Denys Forrest, Tea for the British (London, 1973).
• eBook: Anonymous ('A Tea Dealer') Tsiology; A discourse on tea &c &c
• Business: The Economy - Storm in a teacup
• London tea auction abandoned - The candle that was lit in 1750 will be extinguished in June 1998
• Britain's great tea ceremony ends after 300 years
• Audio: Tea Auction 1936
• 'By the Candle'

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