Vintage Jubilee tin in honour of the 40th anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina in 1938

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Vintage Jubilee tin in honour of the 40th anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina in 1938. 

• Manufacturer: United Dutch tin factory (Verblifa)
• Manufacturing date: 1938

Description
This tin was released in honour of the 40th anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina in 1938 and is executed with a hinged lid with a rolled edge. On the lid, the illustrations of Wilhelmina and Regent Emma appear in two oval medallions. Here in between a number of stylized carnations.

This tin is decorated with a creamy white background with orange details including various carnations. In addition, the tin is decorated with some black and white photographs. At the front the coronation in 1898 with the text: "Coronation ceremony 1928". The back side shows the marriage in 1901 with the text: "Wedding ceremony 1901". On the short side the Royal Palace on Dam Square and the Royal Family with Juliana.

The tin box has a rolled edge at the top and bottom and has a longitudinal seam in one of the corners*. This tin is embossed.

Condition
This anniversary tin is in a vintage condition with various traces of use and age-related traces of wear. * The seamed longitudinal seam on one of the corners has come loose. Pictures are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 7.5 cm.
• Length: 19.5 cm.
• Width: 12 cm.

Wilhelmina; Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948.

Wilhelmina was the only child of King William III and his second wife Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. At the age of four she became heir presumptive to the Dutch throne after her half-brother and great uncle died. She became Queen when her father died, when she was 10 years old. As she was still a minor, her mother served as regent until she turned 18 years old. In 1901, she married Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with whom she had a daughter Juliana.

Wilhelmina was sworn-in and inaugurated at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam on 6 September 1898

She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw the First and the Second world wars, the Dutch economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial power. Outside the Netherlands, she is primarily remembered for her role in World War II, in which she proved to be a great inspiration to the Dutch resistance.

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