Vintage orange checkered tin with sunflowers for VERKADE biskovite Zaandam

Vintage orange checkered tin with sunflowers for VERKADE biskovite Zaandam.

• Manufacturer: Verkade Zaandam
• Manufacturing date: 1920 - 1970

Description
Beautiful vintage cylindrical tin can for Verkade biskovite with a loose, slightly convex lid with three sunflowers. The decoration of this tin consists of an orange background and has a network of yellow diamonds. Vertically five rows of yellow sunflowers and green foliage.

The tin is equipped with rolled edges on the lid as well as at the top and bottom of the tin. The rear can has a folded longitudinal seam. The text Verkade Biskovite Zaandam is embossed on the bottom of the bus.

Condition
This Verkade tin is in a neat vintage condition with normal traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Pictures are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 17.0 cm.
• Diameter: 7.5 cm.

Verkade is originally a Dutch company that manufactured items such as rusk, chocolate and biscuits. Tea lights were also manufactured for some time. The Verkade factories have always been located in Zaandam and are important in the development of the food industry in the Zaan region.

On May 2, 1886, Ericus Gerhardus Verkade opened his Steam Bread and Rusk factory 'De Ruyter' in a former patent oil factory on the Zaan. He simply started making bread and rusks. The success he achieved with this was so great that he was able to regularly add new products to his range.

The name “De Ruyter” was chosen with a bow to the past; the first flour mill in West Zaandam bore that name. The products of the first hour were; bread, rusk, honey gingerbread and Langetjes, later also the tea lights were added. “De Ruyter” is still recognizable in the logo of the Verkade brand. Over time, Verkade switched to making biscuits and chocolate.

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