Red vintage drum or tea tin in belly model with carriage decor by DOUWE EGBERTS

Red vintage drum or tea tin in belly model with carriage decor by DOUWE EGBERTS. 

• Maker: Dutch Bekkers
• Manufacturing date: 1950/1980

Description
This vintage tea tin for Pickwick tea is made by Douwe Egberts and has a rectangular shape in a belly model and is equipped with a hinged lid with handle. This tin is placed on four legs mounted at the bottom, which are pushed into the bottom edge of the tin. The hinge is a so-called concealed needle hinge. The handle on the lid is with tabs attached. At top of the lid is an image of a carriage pulled by two horses that ride along a path with a few trees. On top of the carriage is a coachman in the company of male and female travelers.

The sides of this beautiful nostalgic look are decorated with floral decorations. The corners of the can and lid are finished with gold-colored edges.

Condition
This can is in a neat vintage condition with a few traces of use.

Size

• Height: 6.7 cm.
• Length: 13.2 cm.
• Width: 10.0 cm.

PICKWICK
Douwe Egberts’ experience in blending various types of tea dates back to 1753. That was the year that Egbert Douwes started to sell coffee, tea and tobacco (products that belong to the ‘joys of daily life’) in his shop ‘De Witte Os’ (The White Ox) on the Midstraat, Joure, The Netherlands. 

Until April 1937, tea was marketed under the name Douwe Egberts. Around that time they were looking for an English name. The wife of the then director, Johannes Hessel de Jong, was a tea lover but she was also really taken by the works of the British author Charles Dickens. After she had read Dickens’ ‘Pickwick Papers’, she proposed the name Pickwick. Since then, this brand name has been used to market tea. 

DOUWE EGBERTS
In 1753, Egbert Douwes and his wife Akke Thysses began selling coffee, tea and tobacco from their small shop, ’De Witte Os (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.