Gold-coloured tea tin or spoon box by Douwe Egberts with carriage and tea house

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Gold-coloured tea tin or spoon box by Douwe Egberts with carriage and tea house

• Manufacturer: Dutch united tin factories
• Manufacture date: 1950 / 1980

Vintage tin box with English tea house and carriage.

Description
This rectangular tin for tea (spoons) has a loose closing lid. The decoration of the tin consists of a gold-coloured background with a stripe decor in black on the sides. The lid is decorated with the image of a stagecoach arriving in a village at a tea house.

Text on the lid: English Tea House - seventeenth century.

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

Size

• Height: 4.7 cm.
• Length: 17.8 cm.
• Width: 7.3 cm.

Douwe Egberts originated when Egbert Douwes and his wife Akke Thysses moved from his native village Idskenhuizen to nearby Joure to start a "shop in colonial goods" on 11 March 1753. Douwes and his wife sold items that 'belong to the pleasures of everyday life, including groceries, chocolate and dried fruits.

In 1780 the company was transferred to son Douwe Egberts (1755-1806) - whose name the company still bears - and his wife Ymke Jacobs Visser. DE was involved in the processing and blending of coffee, tea and tobacco.

Under the leadership of son Douwe Egberts, the company expanded beyond the city limits of Joure. This made him not only the name-giver, but also the founder of the company's expansion. After the death of Egberts in 1806, the company was continued by his second wife Lysbeth Mintjes.

Due to its central location in the Netherlands, a second branch was opened in Utrecht in 1919, which had to be expanded after ten years. Since there was no space locally, the company had to move within the city from the Catharijnekade to the Merwedekade (now: Keulsekade), where it is still located today.

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