Vintage tin for tea by Pickwick from Douwe Egberts

Vintage tin for tea by Pickwick from Douwe Egberts. 

Vintage tin for tea by Pickwick from Douwe Egberts  with images of carriage, horses and Inn. 

Size 

• Height: 9.0 cm. 
• Length: 18.0 cm. 
• Width: 10.5 cm. 

Pickwick is a tea brand, marketed by Dutch company Douwe Egberts. It is the largest tea brand in the Netherlands and the leading brand in market share of black tea there, although its share has been decreasing due to competition. As of 2014, it is also the leading tea brand in Denmark, with 27% of market share. 

Douwe Egberts tea had been marketed under the company name since 1753, but in 1937 the name Pickwick was chosen by director Johannes Hessel's wife, who was inspired by Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers. In the 1990s the brand was introduced to Central and Eastern Europe, and in 2015 to the United States in limited supply.

Pickwick teas include black tea, green tea, white tea, flavored teas, and herbal teas.
 

Douwe Egberts is a brand of coffee, and company namesake which was owned by parent company Mondelez International, produced by Jacobs Douwe Egberts. It was founded in Joure, Netherlands by Egbert Douwes in 1753 as The White Ox (De Witte Os) a general grocery shop, which later developed into a company dealing specifically in coffee, tea, and tobacco. By 1925 it had changed its name to Douwe Egberts (as in Douwe, the son of Egbert), and had introduced the red seal with initialism as its logo. 

Douwe Egberts' origins are in Joure, where Egbert Douwe established a grocery shop called "De Witte Os" ("The White Ox") in 1753. The company transferred to his eldest son Douwe Egberts in 1780, from whom it adopted its current name.

The coffee brand Douwe Egberts, especially the more affordable red label, is the traditional coffee drink found in Dutch homes for many years. Collectible seals are printed on the back of the packs of coffee and tea. Consumers can clip these seals to change them for cups, coffeemakers, tea tins etc. This system began around 1925. 

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