Vintage Bolletje rusk tin with figures from De Fabeltjeskrant; Mr. Owl, Droes the Bear, Stoffel the Turtle

Vintage Bolletje rusk tin with figures from De Fabeltjeskrant; Mr. Owl, Droes the Bear, Stoffel the Turtle

• Manufacturer: Thomassen & Drijver
• Date of manufacture: 1969
• M.M. Chanowski Productions.

Vintage biscuit tin made by Bolletje with images from "De Fabeltjeskrant", with Mr (Jacob) the Owl, Droes the Bear and Stoffel the Turtle.

Description
High round cylindrical rusk tin fitted with a loose lid. The lid features the logo of Bolletje, the well-known baker drawn by Maarten Toonder. The decoration of this tin consists of cream-white background images of some characters from the well-known Dutch children's TV series "De fabeltjeskrant", namely Droes de Beer, Stoffel the turtle and in the middle Mister Owl (Jacob). Text at the bottom of the tin: M.M. Chanowski Productions.

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

Size

• Height: 22.5 cm.
• Diameter: 10.5 cm.

De Fabeltjeskrant, Dutch for "The Fables Newspaper" is a Dutch children's television series featuring puppetry and stop motion. Created in 1968  it was broadcast also in the United Kingdom, on ITV, with the title The Daily Fable.

Each episode is based upon fables of Jean de La Fontaine, Aesop, Phaedrus and also by the series' scenographer. The main character, the owl "Meneer de Uil", introduces each episode by reading a fable to other characters upon a tree. The scene is a forest inhabited by different anthropomorphic paper animals and the first episode was broadcast on 29 September 1968 on NOS.

Bolletje B.V. was a Dutch company that produces various types of bread substitutes and pastry products until April 2013. In 2013 the company was taken over by the German Borggreve from Neuenhaus.

Gerardus Johannes ter Beek (1843-1933) started a bakery shop at the Grotestraat in Almelo at the end of 1867, in a building that his father Albertus Antonius (1802-1868), who was a bread seller, had just before his death for him purchased. This company would be the start of a family business that would become known under the name Bolletje in the mid-20th century.

Bolletje developed into the country's largest rusk producer, partly thanks to a sophisticated advertising policy by Jan ter Beek with the cooperation of advertising agency De Zuil from Enschede. The company became famous for its advertising slogan: "I want Bolletje!", Later proclaimed the advertising slogan of the twentieth century. In 1962, a collaboration was started with the bakery company Bachman Bakeries, also located in Almelo, which specialized in producing pretzels.

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