This estate is in Ceylon, and whilst it is shown on this card as Leymastotte, the records show it as Laymastotte, in Haputale, adding that it was founded in 1880. That is all I have discovered yet though.
The first of these tea estates was founded in 1867, by a Scotsman, James Taylor, and called Loolecondera. The estate had been there for some while, but growing coffee. However coffee, for many reasons, including a disease called coffee rust, was failing to grow properly, or at all, and so the proprietor, G.D.B. Harrison told one of his men to go and get some tea seeds from a local botanical gardens and sow them all along the roadsides that made up the estate. Not all of them struck, but some did. And that was how tea came to Ceylon.
Sir Thomas Johnston Lipton's first estate was bought some time later, in 1890. That was in Dambatenne. He bought other estates, but that remained his favourite, and it was where he chose to install the a very modern factory which could pack the leaves to a stated quantity, seal the boxes, and have them ready to ship right across the World.
Again if you look at the back of this card, you would not spot any reference to these being cartophilic, or to Lipton, that is only on the front. You would just take it for a standard view on a Photochrom postcard.
In our updated British Trade Index, it appears as :
LIPTON SERIES. 138 x 88. Postcard backs. Two series. Unnd. See HL-40. ... LIP-080
1. Back "Published by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd. London E.C." HL40-1
2. Back "Published by the Photochrom Co. Ltd., London...." Captions as follows :
a) Captions in large black capitals in white panel
b) Captions in small white captions on picture, 1) "View on Ceylon Tea Estate", 2) "Packing Tea in Ceylon" (only No.10 in listing known).
3.Without captions (all known).
HL-40 is the Handbook, but the listing extends over two pages. I can, however, direct you to an excellent checklist of the three series of these cards, which is part of the New Zealand Postcard Society website. That lists all the cards but assigns them numbers, whereas in our Handbook the cards are listed in alphabetical order and numbered in that order. They also list them in a different way, starting with our set, which they call "A", and following that with a "B" set that we do not list. Then they have the Faulkner cards last, as set "C".
By the way if anyone can supply them with scans of just the fronts of the ones they are missing on that list I am certain they would be very grateful.