So for our first clue we had a cup, but using a trophy to represent the word "cup" so as to make us think of a tea cup. Which you may think has to be the main ingredient in any tea ceremony, but not necessarily, for in China they use bowls, not cups. And they do not use a teapot either.
I promised you a funny story about this card, so here it is. Saturday morning at about 1 am I woke up and checked the newsletter was in place, and it was, but the card of the day had not changed. So I went in to see if I had got the scheduled time wrong, only to find that there was no scheduled card of the day at all. I had the pair in the media gallery on this website, but not the single, and that ruins the 8pm reveal a bit. I could have downloaded it and cut it in half, but not with only my phone downstairs because that has no way to edit anything. Anyway I was able to beg a favour off a dealer friend and copy and paste the one off their website. This is why if you looked very early there was a card without the usual black border. But my card appeared as soon as it could.
Anyway this set, along with its larger sized sibling, appears in our original Churchman reference book (RB.10), published in 1948, as :
131. April 1927. 25 SPORTING TROPHIES (titled series). Size 2 11/16" x 1 7/16" or 67 x 36 m/m. Numbered 1-25. Fronts printed by letterpress, 4-colour half tone process. Backs in dark green, with descriptions. Printed by Mardon, Son & Hall.
132. May 1927. 12 SPORTING TROPHIES. Similar format to (131) but size 3 5/16" x 2 9/20" or 80 x 62 m/m
Our original World Tobacco Issues Index shortens this to
SPORTING TROPHIES. Nd.
A. Small (25)
B. Large (12)
though that is at least on three lines, whereas it is all on one line in our updated version.