Vintage rectangular tin with various windmills in Delft blue / white

Vintage rectangular tin with various windmills in Delft blue / white.

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Description
Rectangular vintage tin box with a hinged lid. The decoration of this tin consists of a white background with windmills in a landscape in Delft blue.

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

Size

• Height: 9 cm.
• Length: 14.5 cm.
• Width: 26.5 cm.

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines and other applications. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone windmill first appeared in Greater Iran during the 9th century, the vertical windmill in northwestern Europe in the 12th century.

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of many material goods, including flour, lumber, paper, textiles, and many metal products. These watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, wire drawing mills.

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