Vintage tin drum for Pickwick tea by Douwe Egberts with an image of coach, horses and inn

Vintage tin drum for Pickwick tea by Douwe Egberts with an image of coach, horses and inn

• Manufacturer: Douwe Egberts
• Date of manufacture: 1970 - 1980

Description
Rectangular green tea tin with a separate double-walled inlay lid. The decoration of this tin consists of a green background with orange details. On both the long sides and on the lid images of a stagecoach, horses and an inn.

On the ends are two ovals, one of which is green with the name Douwe Egberts. The other orange with the name Pickwick Tea.

Condition
This tea tin is in a neat vintage condition with normal traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 9 cm.
• Length: 18 cm.
• Width: 10.5 cm.

Pickwick is a tea brand, marketed by Dutch company Douwe Egberts. It is the largest tea brand in the Netherlands and the leading brand in market share of black tea there, although its share has been decreasing due to competition. As of 2014, it is also the leading tea brand in Denmark, with 27% of market share. 

Douwe Egberts tea had been marketed under the company name since 1753, but in 1937 the name Pickwick was chosen by director Johannes Hessel's wife, who was inspired by Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers. In the 1990s the brand was introduced to Central and Eastern Europe, and in 2015 to the United States in limited supply.

Pickwick teas include black tea, green tea, white tea, flavoured teas, and herbal teas.

Douwe Egberts is a brand of coffee and company namesake which was owned by parent company Mondelez International, produced by Jacobs Douwe Egberts. It was founded in Joure, Netherlands by Egbert Douwes in 1753 as The White Ox (De Witte Os) a general grocery shop, which later developed into a company dealing specifically in coffee, tea, and tobacco. By 1925 it had changed its name to Douwe Egberts (as in Douwe, the son of Egbert), and had introduced the red seal with initialism as its logo. 

Douwe Egberts' origins are in Joure, where Egbert Douwe established a grocery shop called "De Witte Os" ("The White Ox") in 1753. The company transferred to his eldest son Douwe Egberts in 1780, from whom it adopted its current name.

The coffee brand Douwe Egberts, especially the more affordable red label, is the traditional coffee drink found in Dutch homes for many years. Collectable seals are printed on the back of the packs of coffee and tea. Consumers can clip these seals to change them for cups, coffeemakers, tea tins etc. This system began around 1925. 

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