Rectangular vintage tin for 1 kg of KWATTA cocoa with a Delft blue tile tableau depicting a fishing village

Rectangular vintage tin for 1 kg of KWATTA cocoa with a Delft blue tile tableau depicting a fishing village. 

• Manufacturer: Dutch; Bekkers
• Date of manufacture: 1900/1949

Description
Rectangular old vintage cocoa tin with a hinged lid. The tin box has a folding edge and is manufactured with a so-called folded longitudinal seam and bottom. The hinges of the lid are hanging hinges with loose lips. The decoration of the tin: On all sides a representation of a Delft blue tile tableau of a fishing village and boat with cows. Blue border trim. On top of the lid a helmsman behind the wheel. Text: KWATTA's Olanda cocoa, guaranteed pure (also in English and French), Breda Holland, Trade mark net 1 kilo.

Condition
This tin cocoa drum is heavily weathered due to its age and is still in its original vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Pictures are part of the description.

Dimensions

• Height: 20 cm.
• Length: 12 cm.
• Width: 8 cm.

Kwatta has been a fully Belgian brand name for chocolate products since 1972. Previously it was a Belgian-Dutch brand of chocolate, produced in Breda and Bois-d'Haine (since 1913), with chocolate from a Surinamese cocoa plantation of the same name. The Kwatta company was founded in 1883 by P. de Bondt and Jozef Gustaaf van Emden.

The history of Kwatta has its origins in Suriname. There the Dutchman Gustaaf van Emden owned a cocoa plantation in the neighborhood of Paramaribo in the mid-nineteenth century that was called Kwatta.

The expression "All eyes are focused on Kwatta", is from the past and not (anymore) so much in vogue ,. It comes from this chocolate brand. The expression means that everyone focuses their attention on a specific point or topic. In Noord-Brabant and Gelderland the word kwatta, especially by the elderly, is still used when chocolate is meant, for example to ask "Motte gij un stukske kwatta?" Chocolate sprinkles were also called kwattastrussel.

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