The tea bag, thought to be the world’s most expensive, is made of regular PG Tips paper and is filled and bejewelled with diamonds worth over £7500. Of course it also contains PG Tips tea! The beautiful bag has been hand-crafted by jewellery specialists at Boodles.
The diamond tea bag is part of a year long celebration of 75 years of one of Britain’s favourite brews. Jewellery experts at high street designers Boodles, spent three months developing the bejewelled bag and used 280 perfect rocks to create the sparkling finish.
The special tea bag will be part of a touring exhibition ’75 Years of the Great British Cuppa’ that celebrates the history of tea and PG Tips. The tour will visit shopping centres across the UK throughout March (see additional notes).
Pete Harbour, spokesman for PG Tips said, "As it’s our 75th birthday, we wanted to do something special to remind people just how much they love the great British cup of tea."
The tea bag will eventually be used to raise money for Manchester Children’s Hospitals, a charity chosen by workers at the PG Tips factory in Trafford Park, Manchester.
To find out more visit the PG Tips website, www.pgmoment.com
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For further information and images of the diamond tea bag please contact:
Andy Pollen / Bianca Lee-Chang
andy@cakemedia.com / bianca@cakemedia.com
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NOTES TO EDITOR:
1. The tea bag is worth £7,500 and consists of 280, 2.56 carat bright diamonds. The clarity of the diamonds is V V S 1, one away from flawless.
2. There are 100 diamonds inside the bag, 80 diamonds on the chain and tag and 100 diamonds outside the bag.
3. The colour of the diamonds is D (best you can get).
4. The tag string is made up of 18 carat white gold and the logo on the tag itself is made from enamel.
5. £7500 worth of diamonds would buy you 300,000 regular PG Tips tea bags at 2.5p each!
You can see the diamond tea bag on tour throughout March at the following locations:
2nd March 2005 - Trafford Centre, Manchester
4th March 2005 - MetroCentre, Newcastle
7th March 2005 - Meadowhall, Sheffield
9th March 2005 - The Shires, Leicester
11th March 2005 - Lakeside, Dartford
14th March 2005 - Westquay, Southampton
16th March 2005 - Brent Cross, North London
18th March 2005 - Queensgate, Peterborough
