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Vintage tin by Tomado with Kaleidoscope effect

SKU: 2418

Vintage tin by Tomado with Kaleidoscope effect.

  • Manufacturer: Van der Togt  Massa Artikelen Dordrecht
  • Manufacturing date: 1960s

Description
Typical Tomado tin from the 60s. Colors in green, blue and pink in psychedelic patterns. Equipped with a separate lid. Marked at the bottom with Tomado made in Holland.

Condition
This tin is from the sixties and is in a vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

  • Height: 28 cm.
  • Diameter: 20.5 cm.

Tomado was a Dutch company for household products, particularly in plastic coated wire.

The company was founded in Dordrecht in 1923 by the Van der Togt brothers. Tomado stands for Van der Togt Massa Articles Dordrecht. Originally, it was a small company that produced simple wallpaper brackets made of copper wire, which could be used to mount photos on wallpaper. After the Dutch Association of Housewives gave the company the assignment to develop a metal drainer it started to grow and soon a factory in Zwijndrecht was opened.

After the Second World War the reconstruction period began in which Tomado-products symbolized the modern housekeeping. They became very popular and almost every household possessed one or more Tomado products. Due to the popularity of the brand, the company grew rapidly in the 1950s.

Popular products mainly concerned Tomado racks made of iron wire which came in the colors white, black, red, yellow and blue, reminding of the creations of Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondriaan. Very well known were the bookshelves with supports of wire steel and metal shelves in different pastel colors. These are great collector's items at this moment.

Kaleidoscope
A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other in an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection. The reflectors (or mirrors) are usually enclosed in a tube, often containing on one end a cell with loose, colored pieces of glass or other transparent (and/or opaque) materials to be reflected into the viewed pattern. Rotation of the cell causes motion of the materials, resulting in an ever-changing viewed pattern.


Some translations come from an automated system and may contain errors.  

Country of origin
Holland - The netherlands

Kind of object
Tin - drum - container - canister

Theme
Tomado - Psychedelic - Kaleidoscope

Category
Vintage tins

Color
Green - blue - pink

Manufacturer
Van der Togt Massa Artikelen Dordrecht

Brand
TOMADO

Material
Tin - metal

Particularities
Tin drum with kaleidoscope effect

Era
1960s - 1970s

Quality
Vintage with traces of use and age-related traces of wear and tear

Height
28,00 cm

Diameter
20,50 cm

Shipping method
Parcel post with track & trace

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