Rectangular cocoa tin 'Kwatta's Olanda Cacao', 1900-1925 for 1 kg KWATTA cocoa with Delft blue tile tableau​

Rectangular cocoa tin 'Kwatta's Olanda Cacao', 1900-1925 for 1 kg KWATTA cocoa with Delft blue tile tableau​

• Manufacturer: united tin factories Amsterdam
• Date of manufacture: 1900 - 1925

Cocoa tin 'Kwatta's Olanda Cacao'

Description
High, rectangular model tin printed with a representation of four tile pictures in blue. The four performances consist of:

• Front: a coastal landscape with harbour, figures and buildings.
• Back: a boat with figures and cows along the bank.
• Left: a boy in the harbor with a cup of kwatta cacao.
• Right side: a girl in front of a number of houses with a can of quat cocoa under her arm.

The tin is from the company Kwatta, they made Dutch cocoa. The tin reads: 'Kwatta's Olanda Cacao, guaranteed pure; Kwatta's Dutch cocoa, guaranteed pure'.

The tin contained Alcanized Cocoa. This is cocoa whose acidity has been neutralized. The tin was manufactured by the Vereenigde Blikfabriek in Amsterdam in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Vintage cocoa tin in the shape of a standing rectangle is equipped with a hinged lid. The tin has a support front and is made with a seamed longitudinal seam and bottom. The hinge consists of hanging hinges with loose tabs. The decoration is as follows; On all sides a representation of a Delft blue tile tableau of a fishing village and a boat with cows. Blue border decoration. On top of the lid an image of a helmsman behind the steering wheel. Text: KWATTA's Olanda cacao, guaranteed pure (also in English and French). Net 1 kilo.

Condition
This tin is in an original neat vintage condition with minor traces of use and age-related traces of wear for its age. Photos are part of description.

Size

• Height: 23 cm.
• Length: 12 cm.
• Width: 9 cm.

Kwatta has been a fully Belgian brand name for chocolate products since 1972. It was previously a Belgian-Dutch brand of chocolate, produced in Breda and Bois-d'Haine (since 1913), with chocolate coming from a Surinamese cocoa plantation of the same name. The Kwatta company was founded in 1883 by P. de Bondt and Jozef Gustaaf van Emden.

The history of Kwatta has its origin in Suriname. There the Dutchman Gustaaf van Emden owned a cocoa plantation near Paramaribo in the mid-nineteenth century, which was called Kwatta.

The expression "All eyes are on Kwatta", is from the past and not so much in vogue (anymore). It comes from this chocolate brand. The expression means that everyone draws their attention to a specific point or subject. In North Brabant and Gelderland, the word kwatta is still used, especially by the elderly, when referring to chocolate, for example to ask "Motte ge un stukkie kwatta?" Chocolate sprinkles were also called quat strussel.