Large vintage shop tin with two doors by Douwe Egberts Coffee Tea, 1753

Large vintage shop tin with two doors by Douwe Egberts Coffee Tea, 1753.

• Manufacturer: N.V. Dordrechtsche Metaalwarenfabriek - Wed. J. Bekkers & Son - Verblifa
• Manufacturing date: 1910 - 1940

Very attractive and decorative shop tin with doors "Douwe Egberts Coffee Tea"

Description
Oblong rectangular black, yellow and red vintage shop tin with two hinged doors at the front with handles with “Douwe Egberts Coffee-Tea”. Partition in the middle with a rim in which the doors fall.

The decoration of this tin is predominantly black with red and golden yellow details, such as wide and narrow beams that form the boundary of the surfaces. On the doors the famous logo of Douwe Egberts. At the top the text "Anno 1753". The back, bottom and inside are in unpainted tin. On the sides also the text "Anno 1753".

This shop tin stands on two large hemispherical ball feet, so that the doors open easily. Great tin with a beautiful appearance. Nice to put down, but also suitable as a "cabinet" on the wall.

Condition
This large tin by Douwe Egberts is in a vintage condition with various traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Light oxidation traces, no rust or holes.

Dimensions

• Height: 36.5 cm.
• Length: 60.5 cm.
• Width / Depth: 33 cm.

DOUWE EGBERTS (also known as D.E.)
In 1753, Egbert Douwes and his wife Akke Thysses began selling coffee, tea and tobacco from their small shop, ’De Witte O’s (literally’The White Ox’), in Joure, the Netherlands. Egbert Douwes is the founder of the company which became nationally and internationally known under the name of his son Douwe Egberts, who joined the business around 1780. The latter’s success can be put attributed the fact that, whilst in his small shop Egbert Douwes only sold to the local villagers, Douwe Egberts built up a (regional) reputation by also supplying shop owners elsewhere. In 1919 Douwe Egberts goes from local to national with an establishment on the Catherijnekade in Utrecht.

The original shop was called The White Ox – De Witte Os, in Dutch – but the family renamed the company Douwe Egberts as its trade in coffee and tea expanded, along with its reputation. As the business developed, its headquarters were moved to Utrecht, and in 1920, the iconic Douwe Egberts seal – now incorporated into the company’s logo – was introduced.

The story began in a small village in the Netherlands in the year 1753 - around the same time that coffee houses were becoming popular places to meet to discuss the important topics of the day. Egbert Douwes opened a grocery store in Joure, selling mostly coffee, tea and tobacco. He decided, like other merchants at the time, that Joure’s easy access to the waterways would allow trade to flourish, and he was right. 

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