A Boston Tea Party artifact was misdated by about 100 years—a historian solved it by translating its Chinese text
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MIT historian Tristan Brown discovered that a tea label long believed to be from the 1773 Boston Tea Party actually dates to the 1860s–1870s by translating its Chinese script in Cantonese rather than Mandarin, revealing it belonged to Smith, Archer and Co., a New York trading firm active in East Asia during that later period.
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