Vintage tin for Enkhuizer banquet with images of a harbour with fishing boats and regional costumes "Urk"

Vintage tin for Enkhuizer banquet with images of a harbour with fishing boats and regional costumes "Urk"

• Manufacturer: Enkhuizer Banker
• Manufacture date: 1960 - 1989

Description
Rectangular tin in vintage condition by Enkhuizer Banquet, fitted with a loose lid. The tin has a picture on the lid of a harbour with boats and a family in Urker regional costumes. The text Enkhuizer Banquet is embossed on the lid.

On the sides of the tin is an image of a village panorama. The tin stands on four semicircular feet which are expressed in the bottom.

Also in this series of tins:

• Volendam
• Spakenburg
• Marken
• Urk

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

Dimensions

• Height: 5.5 cm.
• Length: 23.0 cm.
• Width: 15.5 cm.

Urk is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands.

Urk is first mentioned in historical records dating to the 10th century when it was still an island in the Zuiderzee, an inland sea that would become part of the IJsselmeer in the 13th century after a series of incursions by the North Sea. In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town's island status, just as the Afsluitdijk project was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the less saline IJsselmeer. Later in the 20th century, seabed areas surrounding Urk were reclaimed from the sea to become the Noordoostpolder.

The mainstay of the town's formal economy has always been fishing, and the products of the sea coming in through Urk harbour continue to be exported widely, although today Urk's fishing boats must travel greater distances to gather them than was required in most historical periods. Religious life has also traditionally been very important to Urk's inhabitants, with active, conservative congregations of the Dutch Reformed denominations playing key roles in the life of the community.

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