Round vintage chocolate tin by Tjoklat for Camée Pastilles

Round vintage chocolate tin by Tjoklat for Camée Pastilles.

• Manufacturer - client: N.V. Hollandsch-Swiss chocolate factory
• Manufacturing date: 1950 - 1970

Vintage tin with loose lid for "Dutch-Swiss chocolate factory, Tjoklat cameo pastilles".

Description
Round tin with a convex loose lid with on the lid, in relief, an Asian woman sitting on her lower legs with a bowl of cocoa fruits in her raised hands. Around this image a decoration with a ball border and a lace-like decoration around the outside of the lid.

Embossed at the bottom: Tjoklat-Fabriek N.V. Amsterdam.

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

Size

• Height: 4 cm.
• Diameter: 12 cm.

Tjoklat was a chocolate factory that was founded in Amsterdam as a limited company. The original name of the factory was Holland (sch) -Zwitsersche Chocolate Factory Amsterdam. The main products were chocolate bars and pastilles (chocolates).

In 1925 the factory already produced 63 million bars under the name Dutch-Swiss chocolate bar. And six months later, the milestone of 100 million bars is announced in an advertisement. The first products with the brand name Tjoklat do not appear on the market until September 1936. "Tjoklat" was the Malay word for "chocolate". Since then, the mark depicted a kneeling Indonesian woman holding a bowl of cocoa fruit in her hands.

After the war, the factory with the Tjoklat mark gained its greatest fame. In 1950 the factory changed its name to Tjoklat-Fabriek NV Amsterdam. Bakelite boxes were replaced by embossed tin boxes. In 1984, Baronie-De Heer took over the chocolate factory in Vlaardingen in Alphen aan den Rijn. The Tjoklat brand name and mark are still used today.

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