Van Nelle coffee and tea tin with matching conical earthenware cup

Van Nelle coffee and tea tin with matching conical earthenware cup.

• Manufacturer: Van Nelle
• Date of manufacture: 1990/1999

Description
Rectangular high coffee tin in the colors red, green and blue with a clear surface division based on Jac's red / yellow tin. Jongert from the period 1930. The text is printed in the red / yellow area. On the side walls 'Van Nelle's Broken Tea' and 'Van Nelle's Pakjes Koffie'. The tin has a loose lid. The bottom is seamed inwards. The inside of the tin is gold-colored. The tin is a nostalgic variation on the old shop tin.

A nostalgic retro tin with a vintage look made by Van Nelle for coffee and tea. The tin is a reproduction of a classic design. The well-known Rotterdam firm Van Nelle existed from 1782 to 1989. Very nice eye-catcher for the retro kitchen.

This tin is accompanied by a conical cup of white earthenware from Van Nelle advertising coffee. Decorated with a polychrome print on the side with a red and blue surface with a yellow head in the middle and white lettering.

This earthenware cup has recently been added to the collection of the Rotterdam Museum.

Condition
The earthenware cup is in a very neat retro condition. The tin is in a retro-vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Dimensions

Tin

• Height: 15.5cm.
• Length: 12 cm.
• Width: 8 cm.

Cup

• Height: 10 cm.
• Diameter: 8 cm.

Van Nelle was a Dutch (Rotterdam) manufacturer of rolling tobacco, cigarettes, coffee and tea.

In 1782 Johannes van Nelle and his wife Hendrica started a coffee, tea and tobacco shop at the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam. After the death of Johannes van Nelle in 1811, his widow continued the shop. The widow also died in 1813. Son Johannes van Nelle Jr. and his brother-in-law Abraham Goedkoop continued the business under the name De Erven de Wed. J. van Nelle. After the death of Johannes van Nelle Jr., the Van der Leeuw family took a share in the company in 1837. From 1845 Van Nelle was wholly owned by the Van der Leeuw family.

Jacobus Johannes van der Leeuw expanded the company between 1837 and 1881. He made worldwide trade contacts, founded his own plantations in the Dutch East Indies and expanded the shop into a factory for roasting coffee and processing tobacco and tea. Around the turn of the century, coffee and tea became increasingly important. Van Nelle was therefore very successful.

The company distinguished itself through its own approach, with appealing advertising figures such as Piggelmee. The period around the Second World War was difficult for Van Nelle. But from the 1950s it went under the direction of director J.P. Coelingh better again.

The introduction of the first freshly ground vacuum-packed coffee under the name Supra in 1962 has contributed significantly to this.

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