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Vintage tin drum with Roman chariot by Albert Heijn

SKU: 1595

Vintage tin drum with Roman chariot by Albert Heijn

Rectangular tin drum with flattened corners and an image of an embossed Roman chariot by Albert Heijn.

  • Maker: Dutch United Tin Factories
  • Manufacturing date: 1956/1956

Description
Rectangular tin with angled flattened corners. Equipped with a hinged lid, slightly bulging and with a flat side edge. The lid is equipped with a needle hinge. On the underside, this can has four slightly pyramid-shaped feet. Both the lid and the sides of the tin are embossed. On the lid an image of a Roman charioteer on a wagon with four horses. The sides have beautiful rectangular decorative edges. Text at the bottom, in decorative letters the brand name Albert Heijn.

This tin drum is in a neat used condition.

  • Height: 5.8 cm.
  • Length: 15 cm.
  • Width: 12 cm.

Albert Heijn B.V. is the largest Dutch supermarket chain, founded in 1887 in Oostzaan, Netherlands. It is named after Albert Heijn, Sr., the founder of the first store in Oostzaan.

Albert Heijn is the oldest organization owned and operated by the Dutch supermarket operator Ahold. The founder of the company (Albert Heijn) was born in 1865. In fact, the name "Ahold" is short for Albert Heijn Holding.

The stores are full-service markets (as opposed to discounters) known for their focus on quality stores and products. This focus on superior products is part of the reason that Albert Heijn is regarded as one of the more expensive supermarkets in the Netherlands, Belgium and Curaçao. 

A chariot is a type of carriage driven by a charioteer using primarily horses[a] to provide rapid motive power. Chariots were used by armies as transport or mobile archery platforms, for hunting or for racing, and as a conveniently fast way to travel for many ancient people.

The word "chariot" comes from the Latin carrus, itself a loanword from Gaulish. A chariot of war or one used in military parades was called a car. In ancient Rome and some other ancient Mediterranean civilizations, a biga required two horses, a triga three, and a quadriga four.

The horse chariot was a fast, light, open, two-wheeled conveyance drawn by two or more horses that were hitched side by side, and was little more than a floor with a waist-high guard at the front and sides. It was initially used for ancient warfare during the Bronze and Iron Ages; but, after its military capabilities had been superseded by cavalry, as horses were gradually bred to be bigger, the chariot was used for travel, in processions, for games, and in races.


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