Vintage tin for Wasa Crackers with an image of ripe grain

Vintage tin for Wasa Crackers with an image of ripe grain. 

• Manufacturer: Thomassen & Drijver Verblifa
• Manufacturing date: 1985/1999

Description
This is a rectangular tin with rounded corners and executed with a loose lid with a high edge. The decoration of this tin consists of a predominantly yellow surface with blue surfaces. On the lid the brand name WASA and an image of a field landscape with ripe yellow grain against the background of a blue sky. On the sides of the lid, the name WASA decorated on both sides with an ear of corn.

The long sides of the tin show the same image as on the lid but with an orange banner with crown and the text: "Since 1919". Furthermore, a stamp with the text: 100% original quality Knäckebröd of Swedish origin (Dutch).

On the end sides, the tin shows the text: Since 1919 WASA Knäckebröd is baked according to the traditional Swedish recipe (Dutch). 

Lovely tin for storing crackers.

Condition
This tin is in a good vintage condition with traces of use and wear. Clean inside.

Size

• Height: 12.5 cm.
• Length: 19 cm.
• Width: 8 cm.

Wasa. 
The Swedish company Wasabröd is the largest producer in the world of Scandinavian style crisp bread (Swedish: knäckebröd). The Wasabröd company has been in business since 1919, opening its first bakery in the city of Skellefteå. Since 1983 it has been under foreign ownership, first by the Swiss pharmaceutical corporation Sandoz (later merged with Ciba Geigy to become Novartis), and from 1999 by the Italian food producer Barilla Alimentare S.p.A.. 

The first bakery in Skellefteå, founded by Karl Edvard Lundström, was supplemented by another, completely mechanized, one in Filipstad in 1931, which has since become the main seat of the corporation. It later acquired several other Swedish bakeries. It started exporting bread in the 1940s, with the first foreign subsidiary founded in Denmark in 1965 and the first foreign bakery built in Celle in Germany in 1967. In the early 21st century Wasabröd sells about 80% of its production outside Sweden. 

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