Vintage tin box for Van Houten Bonbons Fins

Vintage tin box for Van Houten Bonbons Fins. 

Beautiful old vintage tin with a hinged lid on which a bouquet of flowers, including yellow roses. Both sides and lid have a red surface with yellow details.

Text on the inside of the lid: Bonbons Fins Van Houten.

This tin is in a vintage condition with various traces of wear and tear. 

• Height: 3.8 cm.
• Length: 18.7 cm.
• Width: 11 cm.

Van Houten.
The Firm Van Houten was founded in Amsterdam, Holland – by Coenraad Johannes Van Houten. 
In the 1820s chocolate drinking was not widely developed and the taste quality was very poor. How to develop a chocolate drink where the housewife should only add hot water or milk to a chocolate basis? How to make the chocolate easy soluble? 

Van Houten invented the cocoa pressing method – which was granted a patent from the Dutch King William I. Cocoa solids were separated from cocoa butter by means of pressing by treatment with alkali, acids were neutralized, fibers softened and broken up. 

Result – light fluffy powder, full of flavour, extremely digestible and easily soluble in milk or water. 
Other ground cocoa beans(=cocoa mass) mixed with sugar and with added cocoa butter which had been obtained in making cocoa powder, could be moulded into solid chocolate bars, and used to coat chocolate candies. 

Van Houten builds a new factory in Weesp, the Netherlands. He starts exporting products to the UK, France and Germany. 

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