Vintage Royal Verkade cookie tin

Verkade Cookie tin. 

Nicely designed and quite rare cookie jar made by Verkade. Stylized image of a girl in a traditional dress with wooden shoes in landscape. Further details include; tulips, Storm and Sun. The four sides of the tin are decorated with garland of tulips. 

Marked at the inside on the bottom: Koninklijke Verkade Fabrieken N.V. Zaandam - Holland. 

• Height: 6 cm. 
• Length: 21 cm. 
• Width: 13,5 cm. 

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, and employs some 450 people in Zaandam. The last members of the Verkade family, Ericus's great-grandsons Erik and Arnold, left the company in 1992.