Vintage 'Royal Verkade' cookie tin

Vintage 'Royal Verkade' cookie tin. 

Cookie tin with stylized Dutch scenes for VERKADE.

Rectangular cookie tin with loose lid. This tin is richly decorated in white and dark gray. The tin is dark gray with white drawings. On the lid, there are various canal houses. On the sides of the tin, various drawings can be seen with cows, sailboats, a golden carriage etc. Embossed text on the bottom and visible from the inside: "Koninklijke VERKADE fabrieken Zaandam-Holland". 

• Height: 6.0 cm. 
• Length: 21.1 cm. 
• Width: 13.5 cm. 

Verkade (Dutch: Koninklijke Verkade) is a Dutch manufacturing company. The company is headquartered in Zaandam and was one of the oldest existing family companies in the Netherlands. In November 2014 the company was acquired by Turkish Pladis. It was founded in 1886 by Ericus Verkade to make mostly bread and rusk, and expanded to produce cookies, sweets, and, especially, chocolates. 

The company was first named "De Ruyter" for a mill in Zaandam which milled flour—the original "ruiter" ("knight") was on the company logo until 1994, when it was removed to make way for a newly designed logo, intended to give the company and its products a more contemporary look. The horseman is still found on Verkade rusk, which currently is made by the competitor, the Bolletje factory in Almelo, using the Verkade recipe. The company acquired the right to bear the "royal" mark in their name in 1950. 

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