James Greenwood, whom the Sun Fire Office records as a grocer and tea-dealer insured at 9 Pavement Moorfields in 1819, left no trace of his business to posterity apart from the present trade card. The card shows a poorly improvised oriental scene in reference to the tea industry, with two men wearing stereotypical Chinese dress enjoying tea from a large urn, while a ship sailing under the Union Jack embarks with its wares.

The purveyor specifies that he is James Greenwood Junior: his eponymous father may have been a dyer named James Greenwood active at 4 Finsbury Pavement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, or a hops dealer by the same name who was working in Borough from around 1793 to 1818.