Square chocolate tin with hinged lid, "A. Driessen, Dessert chocolate", silver coloured

Square chocolate tin with hinged lid, "A. Driessen, Dessert chocolate", silver coloured.

• Producer: A. Driessen
• Manufacturing date: 1920 - 1929

Description
Square tin box with decoration and text in relief for "dessert chocolate" of N.V. Cacao en Chocolaadfabrieken A. Driessen, Rotterdam.

This vintage tin packaging for chocolate has a square shape and is equipped with a hinged lid. The tin has rounded corners and is decorated on the lid with a mythological animal, namely the griffin.

Griffins are anthropomorphic creatures with bird heads, wings and a pronounced torso with acanthus leaf lower bodies. Furthermore, the decoration on the lid consists of the product name and the company name in an oval and rectilinear border decoration with a pair of semi-circles, in relief.

On the front and back the company name A. Driessen in relief, with a frame of acanthus leaf per letter. On the sides the product name in a kind of oval with a leaf motif on both sides.

Text on the lid in three languages;

• Zie voor den inhoud van deze trommel sluitzegel
• Pour le contenu de cette boîte voir le sceau
• Für den Inhalt dieser Dose sehe man das Schluszsiegel

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

Dimensions

• Height: 4.0 cm.
• Length: 17 cm.
• Width: 17 cm.

A. Driessen is a Dutch brand name of chocolate. A. Driessen's factory had been located in Rotterdam since 1820.

The raw material cocoa came from the then colony of Suriname. In 1854, the Driessen Cacao and Chocolate Factory in the Rubroek district of Rotterdam was opened. Later the company was moved to the Rechter Rottekade.

In 1871 the company was awarded the title of purveyor to the court. In 1893 the factory was expanded and by the end of the century Driessen was one of the most important chocolate companies in the Netherlands. After the outbreak of a crisis on the cocoa market in 1907, raw material prices rose sharply. However, it was the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression that killed the factory. In 1935 Driessen was taken over by the Breda chocolate factory Kwatta. After more than a century, the once famous company came to an end.

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