Vintage biscuit or rusk tin for Blue Band with illustration by Rie Cramer

Vintage biscuit or rusk tin for Blue Band. 

• Manufacturing date: 1945/1955 

Round biscuit or rusk tin with a recipe for rusk on the backside. On the front side an illustration of Rie Cramer presenting a girl with blue ribbon hat and a basket with the text ""Koopt heden Blue Band Versch gekarnd 30 cent per 1/2 pond."

This tin is in a beautiful vintage condition.

• Height: 21.1 cm.
• Diameter: 11.5 cm.
   

Marie "Rie" Cramer (10 October 1887 – 8 July 1977) was a Dutch writer and prolific illustrator of children's literature whose style is considered iconic for the interwar period. 

Born in Sukabumi in what was then the Dutch East Indies, she was the daughter of Hendrik Cramer, a ship captain, and Elisabeth Frederica Schenk. She moved to the Netherlands with her mother and her youngest sister in 1896, where they settled in Arnhem. Stimulated by her aunt Gesine, an artist, she studied drawing in Arnhem.

Cramer is best known for her numerous illustrations for children's books, some of which she wrote, but she also illustrated adult literature including works by Shakespeare. For many years, she and Anton Pieck were the two main illustrators for Zonneschijn, a magazine that first appeared in 1924 and became the most important non-religious youth magazine of the Netherlands until it folded in 1943. She also created set designs and costumes for the theater and for the Dutch pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

She began her career as an illustrator while still a student. Her early work was influenced by illustrators like Edmund Dulac, Aubrey Beardsley, and Arthur Rackham and had a distinct Art Nouveau style. From the 1920s on, her illustrations became more simplified and less lyrical. The colors as well became less nuanced and brighter under the influence of her work on stage costumes and sets. From the 1930s on, she worked less on children's books and started writing books for young adults. She also created art pottery together with her friend Fransje Carbasius, whom she had met at the academy in The Hague.

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