Dickens Oliver Twist|volume=II|page=50|passage=Mrs. Corney shook her he admournfully, as if deploring the mental blindness of those paupers who did not know it, and, thrusting a silver spoon (private property) into the inmost recesses of a two-ounce tin tea-caddy, proceeded to make the tea.
Thackeray Vanity Fair|page=536|passage=After-life proved the truth of this melancholy prophecy: and Mrs Clapp revenged herself for the deterioration of mankind by levying the most savage contributions upon the tea-caddies and legs of mutton of her locataires.
Le Fanu Wylder's Hand|chapter=“Jenny, Put the Kettle On.â€|pages=88–89|pageref=89|passage=And the young lady, with a laugh, sat down, looking so pleased, and good-natured, and merry, that even old Tamar was fain to smile a glimmering smile; and little Margery actively brought the tea-caddy; and the kettle being in a skittish, singing state, quickly went off in a boil, and Tamar actually made tea in her brown tea-pot.
1983, Staffordshire Porcelain, Thus we find that many of the teasets, in particular the gilded ones, had a tea-caddy (Plate 99) and a spoon-tray (Plate 106).
