Vintage van Melle tin box. Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte of Luxembourg

Vintage tin box by van Melle with a portrait of Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte and Princess Astrid Habsburg of Luxembourg. 

This beautiful tin made by 'Van Melle' shows a stunning photograph of the Luxembourg court photographer Edouard Kutter.

The photo on the hinged lid shows Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte and Princess Astrid Habsburg of Luxembourg. On the sides, several children hand in hand with flags. The bottom of the tin is marked with the text: Van Melle, Anvers.

This tin is in a neat vintage condition.

Édouard Frédéric Henri Kutter (1887-1978) was a Luxembourg photographer, the son of the German-born Paul Kutter, who founded a studio in the Luxembourg city in 1883.

Édouard Kutter Jr. (born 1934) is a Luxembourgish photographer and publisher. The son of the photographer Édouard Kutter Sr. (1887–1978), he was appointed court photographer in 1966. In 1963, he took over his father's photographic business. In 1986, with the agreement of the Court, he donated to Luxembourg's Photothèque some two thousand photographs of the Grand Ducal family taken by his father between 1896 and 1960. At the end of 1989, he also donated his own collection of images taken between 1960 and 1980 documenting the development of the city.

• Height: 9,5 cm. 
• Length: 25,2 cm. 
• Width: 18,2 cm. 

Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte of Luxembourg

Perfetti Van Melle is a worldwide operating confectionery manufacturer. 

Van Melle began around 1840 as a bakery at Breskens. They also sold sugar balls. In 1900, Izaak van Melle also began to produce this automatically by using machines. About 1920, Izaak's brother Dirk-Machiel started a factory for biscuits and waffles, including the famous Dutch Maria biscuit (Mariakaakje).

They search Internationally for recipes and from 1926, toffees were manufactured, as well as the fruit caramel and peppermint caramel introduced from Poland. These sweets are still popular throughout the world under the names Fruittella and Mentos. The company found markets far beyond the limits and in 1935 even the first company aircraft of the Netherlands, the Double Eagle, was purchased. On September 11, 1944, however, Breskens was heavily bombarded by the Allies, which also destroyed the factory. In 1946, production was restarted in Rotterdam. In the eighties of the 20th century, the company moved to Breda, where about 650 people worked.

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