Vintage set of Douwe Egberts tins

Vintage set of Douwe Egberts tins. 

Nice set for the collector. This vintage set consists of a round tin drum, a rectangular tin and a smaller one for coupons. They are all made by Douwe Egberts and decorated with the famous coffee-pouring lady in an old Dutch Frisian costume.

D.E.Round drum Aroma Koffie

• Maker: Numan's Blikfabrieken (Amsterdam) 
• Manufacturing date: 1960 / 1969 

Round tin for storing coffee, made by Douwe Egberts with a picture of a coffee pouring lady in Frisian costume and text: Douwe Egberts 1753 aroma coffee.

This tin is in a used vintage condition with some dents on the lid.

• Height 22 cm.
• Diameter 21.5 cm.

D.E. Rectangular tin Aroma Koffie

Tin drum for coffee by Douwe Egberts, a reissue of an old tin from the 1930s.

Nostalgic black/red/gold rectangular Douwe Egberts tin in a good condition. A nice addition to the collector of old tins or Douwe Egberts in particular.

This tin is in a vintage condition and has normal wear.

• Height: 10.5 cm.
• Length: 17.0 cm.
• Width: 10.8 cm.

D.E. Waarde punten-doosje

Many users of Douwe Egberts products in the Netherlands still save and have saved the value points/coupons on the packaging. With these points and some additional payment, all kinds of Douwe Egberts items can be purchased. This Douwe Egberts tin box has a hinged lid.

This tin box is in a vintage condition and has normal traces of wear.

• Height: approx. 8 cm.
• Depth: approx. 8 cm.
• Width: approx. 12 cm.

DOUWE EGBERTS (also known as D.E.)
In 1753, Egbert Douwes and his wife Akke Thysses began selling coffee, tea and tobacco from their small shop, ’De Witte O’s (literally’The White Ox’), in Joure, the Netherlands. Egbert Douwes is the founder of the company which became nationally and internationally known under the name of his son Douwe Egberts, who joined the business around 1780. The latter’s success can be put attributed the fact that, whilst in his small shop Egbert Douwes only sold to the local villagers, Douwe Egberts built up a (regional) reputation by also supplying shop owners elsewhere. In 1919 Douwe Egberts goes from local to national with an establishment on the Catherijnekade in Utrecht.

The original shop was called The White Ox – De Witte Os, in Dutch – but the family renamed the company Douwe Egberts as its trade in coffee and tea expanded, along with its reputation. As the business developed, its headquarters were moved to Utrecht, and in 1920, the iconic Douwe Egberts seal – now incorporated into the company’s logo – was introduced.

The story began in a small village in the Netherlands in the year 1753 - around the same time that coffee houses were becoming popular places to meet to discuss the important topics of the day. Egbert Douwes opened a grocery store in Joure, selling mostly coffee, tea and tobacco. He decided, like other merchants at the time, that Joure’s easy access to the waterways would allow trade to flourish, and he was right. 

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