Vintage storage tin for Wasa crackers

Vintage storage tin for Wasa crackers. 

• Manufacturer: Thomassen & Drijver Verblifa

Description
Rectangular tin with scalloped corners and fitted with a loose lid with a wide rim. The decoration of this sunny tin consists of various summer images. The lid is decorated with a clear blue sky with sun, kiwi and bunch of grapes.

On the sides are various images. On the short sides an orange and a cup of coffee. On the front a bee, cornstalk, fork, dinner plate and sunflower. On the backside, a newspaper, rooster, swallow and corn.

Gold-colored inside.

Condition
This vintage tin made for WASA crackers is in a neat vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 12.5 cm.
• Length: 19 cm.
• Width: 8 cm.

Wasa. 
The Swedish company Wasabröd is the largest producer in the world of Scandinavian style crisp bread (Swedish: knäckebröd). The Wasabröd company has been in business since 1919, opening its first bakery in the city of Skellefteå. Since 1983 it has been under foreign ownership, first by the Swiss pharmaceutical corporation Sandoz (later merged with Ciba Geigy to become Novartis), and from 1999 by the Italian food producer Barilla Alimentare S.p.A.. 

The first bakery in Skellefteå, founded by Karl Edvard Lundström, was supplemented by another, completely mechanized, one in Filipstad in 1931, which has since become the main seat of the corporation. It later acquired several other Swedish bakeries. It started exporting bread in the 1940s, with the first foreign subsidiary founded in Denmark in 1965 and the first foreign bakery built in Celle in Germany in 1967. In the early 21st century Wasabröd sells about 80% of its production outside Sweden. 

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