Vintage 25-year anniversary tin De Spar, for gingerbread or gingerbread, from 1957

Vintage 25-year anniversary tin De Spar, for gingerbread or gingerbread, from 1957.

• Manufacturer / client: De Spar
• Manufacturing date: 1957 - 1957

Rectangular tin with hinged lid, 25-year-old De Spar, green, orange and silver

Description
Rectangular elongated vintage tin with rounded corners and convex hinged lid. The decoration of this anniversary tin consists of a green background, with various images of orange with silver-coloured bees, suns and roosters with silver-coloured spruce and honeycombs throughout. On the bottom two crossed flags with the logo De Spar and the text: 25 years. The Spar 1932 - 1957.

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

Size

• Height: 9.5 cm.
• Length: 32 cm.
• Width: 10.5 cm.

De Spar is an international chain of supermarkets, founded in 1932 in Zegjack by Adriaan van Well.

It is usually said that De Spar is an abbreviation of the motto "Through Eendrachtig Samenwerken Profiteren Allen Regular". In that case the article is therefore an essential part of the name. According to others, the name "De Spar" was chosen at random because founder Van Well had signed a spruce tree in the minutes of the founding meeting, or for some other reason, in which case the motto was coined with the name, a backronym.

When Spar stores also started in Germany, the word "De" was dropped. In some countries, including Italy, the name De Spar has continued.

In German, the name Spar suggests another meaning: Spaar. Yet the chain also uses the same logo there with a green circled spruce tree (although such a tree is called 'Tanne' in German). The current logo was designed in 1968 by Raymond Loewy.

Some stores have a liquor store called Le Sapin. That is the French translation of De Spar.

Some translations come from an automated system and may contain errors.