Vintage candy or cookie tin with still lifes of fruit pieces on all sides

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Vintage candy or cookie tin with still lifes of fruit pieces on all sides

• Manufacturer: Verblifa
• Manufacture date: 1900 - 1940

Description
Rectangular tin with a hinged lid. The decoration of this tin on all sides consists of gold-coloured decorative edges and painted fruit in various colours.

The bottom of this tin has a raised edge.

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

Size

• Height: 9 cm.
• Length: 18.7 cm.
• Width: 11.2 cm.

Verblifa, De Vereenigde Blikfabrieken was a Dutch company that manufactured tinplate packaging, besides sheet iron articles, enamel signs, household articles, sheet metal and stamping and cooking and heating articles.

In 1930 Verblifa acquired practically all the shares in the Woud & Bekkers Blikfabrieken, which operated under the former name Dordrechtsche Metaalwarenfabriek v/h Wed. J. Bekkers & Son continued as an independent company under Verblifa.

In 1936, together with the Dordrechtsche Metaalwarenfabriek v/h Wed. J. Bekkers & Zoon, established a subsidiary, NV De Vereenigde Automatenfabrieken V.A.F. in Amsterdam. After the war, a large interest was only acquired in the Electro Blikfabriek in Leeuwarden in 1949, and in 1953 the Mij was formed together with this company. was founded in Doesburg to manufacture 'Ducat' heating and cooking appliances. In 1954 Verblifa also started manufacturing plastic articles. At that time, approximately 3450 workers worked in the 8 factories and the head office. Ten years later, in 1964, it still employed approximately 2400 people. At the end of 1964, Thomassen & Drijver-Verblifa arose from a merger of T & D with De Vereenigde Blikfabrieken.

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