Vintage tin box for tea spoons made by Douwe Egberts for Pickwick tea

Vintage tin box for tea spoons made by Douwe Egberts for Pickwick tea.

Tin box for tea spoons. Made by Douwe Egberts with pictures of sailing ships and fishermen, with hinged lid.

• Manufacturing date: 1970 - 1985

This is an elongated oval tin with hinged lid. The lid is double-walled and has a small handle. The box is equipped with an edge. The hinged lid consists of five smaller hinges.

The lid also has a cream-colored background with images of an old city with spiers, windmills and a bridge. Sailing ships can be seen on the water. On the foreground are a few trees and a fisherman. The lid has a gold-colored edge and trees are shown on the short sides. On the long sides there are different images, but very similar to those of the lid. The inside is covered with red felt-like paper. A brown-white image can be seen on the inside of the lid.

Dimensions 

• Height: 4.8 cm. 
• Length: 16.5 cm. 
• Width: 6.5 cm. 

Douwe Egberts (or DE) is a Dutch company that processes and trades coffee, tea and foods. The company was founded in 1753. In 1978, the company was completely taken over by the American company Sara Lee. In mid-2012 the company became independent and DE went to the stock market as D.E. Master Blenders 1753 NV. After a bid for all shares, the company was fully owned by a German investor at the end of 2013.

Pickwick is a tea brand from Douwe Egberts. The brand dates back from 1937, before the company sold unbranded tea for the first time in 1753 from a shop in the Midstraat in the Dutch city of Joure.

The name Pickwick is inspired by the title of the book The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. The wife of the director had taken note of this book and suggested the real English sounding name 'Pickwick'.

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