Square green tea tin in cube shape by co-op

Square green tea tin in cube shape by co-op. 

• Manufacturer: Co-op
• Date of manufacture: 1930 - 1950

Description
Square green tea tin in a cubic shape with a hinged lid on which the brand name Co-op. The lid is equipped with a so-called pin or needle hinge. This tin has no further lettering than the Co-op logo on top of the lid.

The decoration of this tin consists of a green background with golden curls. All around this tin is decorated with four representations that all show the harvest and origin of tea in the colonies. Tea picker with a plant, landscape with mountains, sailing ship and oriental woman with cup of tea.

The tin has a longitudinal seam on one of the corners. The bottom is also seamed but is attached to the inside of the bottom.

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

Size

• Height: 10 cm.
• Length: 9.5 cm.
• Width: 9.5 cm.

The first cooperatives
The roots of CO-OP go back to the end of the nineteenth century. Factory workers then revolted against the low wages, high prices and poor quality of food. They started shops as a cooperative. Here they sold food to members at reasonable prices. There were more and more of these stores coming up. Firstly locally, but through regional mergers, regional cooperatives also emerged.

In the sixties, the department stores came. This made it increasingly necessary for cooperative stores to join forces and thus achieve a stronger position. An attempt was made to unite all local and regional consumer cooperatives in Co-op Netherlands.

Unfortunately, the bundling of forces started too late. That was why it went wrong in 1973: the shops and production companies of Coop Nederland came into the hands of the competitors.

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