Oval vintage tin for cameo pastilles made by TJOKLAT

Oval vintage tin for cameo pastilles made by TJOKLAT

• Manufacturer: Hollandse Metaal Drukkerij (MHD)
• Manufacture date: 1920 / 1970

Oval tin for TJOKLAT cameo pastilles with white-gold decoration and a dancing woman in relief.

Description
Vintage tin with an oval shape, fitted with a loose lid. Manufactured without seams. The decoration of this tin consists of a gold-coloured background. The lid has tendril-like decorations on the edges. Furthermore, a white relief border with a dancing woman with cloth in it also executed in relief.

Text on lid: TJOKLAT cameo pastilles. Text in relief at the bottom: Tjoklat-fabriek N.V. Amsterdam.

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

Size

• Height: 4 cm.
• Length: 18.2 cm.
• Width: 11 cm.

Chocolate became known in the Netherlands because it travelled with the Duke of Alva. Subsequently, coffee and chocolate houses arose in the Netherlands. In 1660 there were signs in Amsterdam with the text "Hier schenckt men Seculation".

Dutch producers of chocolate are, for example, Baronie, A. Driessen, Droste, Verkade, Rademaker, Union Edel Chocolate, Van Houten, Venz and Tony's Chocolonely. A no longer existing Dutch brand is Tjoklat.

Tjoklat was a chocolate factory that was founded in Amsterdam as a limited liability company. The original name of the factory was Holland(sch)-Zwitsersche Chocolate Factory Amsterdam. The main products were chocolate bars and pastilles (chocolate).

In the year 1925, the factory already produced 63 million bars under the name Hollandsch-Swiss chocolate bar. And six months later, the milestone of 100 million bars is announced in an advertisement. The first products with the Tjoklat brand name did not appear on the market until September 1936. "Tjoklat" was the Malay word for "chocolate". The mark has since been an image of a kneeling Indonesian woman with a bowl of cocoa fruits in her hands.

After the war, the factory received its greatest fame with the Tjoklat mark. The factory changed its name to Tjoklat-Fabriek NV Amsterdam in 1950. The bakelite boxes were replaced by embossed tin boxes. In 1984 Baronie-De Heer in Alphen aan den Rijn took over the chocolate factory in Vlaardingen. The Tjoklat brand name and mark are still used today.

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