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Vintage tin with drawing of shepherd in landscape

SKU: BT-2599-19

Vintage tin with drawing of shepherd in landscape. 

  • Date of manufacture: around 1940

Description
Rectangular vintage tin with a hinged lid. Both tin and the lid are decorated with various embossed ornaments. On the tin a beautiful colored drawing of a shepherd resting against a tree, playing on a flute, in a meadow landscape with a herd of sheep with a shepherd dog in the background. The drawing is in an oval medallion. The drawing is executed in various bright colours including green, red and yellow.

The tin box itself features orange chalices and embellishments finished in relief.

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

Size

  • Height: 9 cm.
  • Length: 18.5 cm.
  • Width: 11.2 cm.

A shepherd or sheepherder is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards herds of sheep. Shepherd derives from Old English sceaphierde.

Shepherding is among the oldest occupations, beginning some 5,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, meat and especially their wool. Over the next thousand years, sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia. Henri Fleisch tentatively suggested the Shepherd Neolithic industry of Lebanon may date to the Epipaleolithic and that it may have been used by one of the first cultures of nomadic shepherds in the Beqaa Valley.

Some sheep were integrated in the family farm along with other animals such as chickens and pigs. To maintain a large flock, the sheep must be able to move from pasture to pasture. This required the development of an occupation separate from that of the farmer. The duty of shepherds was to keep their flock intact, protect it from predators and guide it to market areas in time for shearing. In ancient times, shepherds also commonly milked their sheep, and made cheese from this milk; few shepherds still do this today.


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Country of origin
The Netherlands - Holland

Kind of object
Tin drum - tin box

Theme
Sheep shepherd in landscape

Category
Vintage tins

Color
Black - orange - green - yellow - red-white

Material
Tin - metal

Particularities
Hinged lid - embossed details - colored drawing in medallion

Era
Around 1940

Quality
Vintage with traces of use

Height
9,00 cm

Lenght
18,50 cm

Width
11,20 cm

Shipping method
Parcel post with track & trace

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