Vintage tin Van Nelle's Coffee, guarantees quality. With gnome Piggelmee

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Vintage tin Van Nelle's Coffee, guarantees quality. With gnome Piggelmee

• Manufacturer: van Nelle
• Date of manufacture: 1999

Description
Rectangular blue drum for coffee by Van Nelle with the gnome Piggelmee offering a lady a cup of coffee, with the inscription: Van Nelle's coffee guarantees quality.

Text on the side: Van Nelle since 1782
"Van Nelle aroma at its best.
Van Nelle coffee shows good taste. You consciously opt for a trusted, fragrant quality coffee. The Van Nelle craftsmanship is the guarantee for aroma fresh coffee. And you can taste it!"

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

Size

• Height: 15.5 cm.
• Width: 12.3 cm.
• Depth: 8.2 cm.

Piggelmee is a fairytale character who mainly became known in the Netherlands through a series of children's books by coffee roaster Van Nelle. The first books were written by L.C. Stone houses. The books are picture books.
A gnome couple named Piggelmee and Tureluur live in an old Cologne pot. They have Van Nelle coffee. A magic fish makes them wish. The female Tureluur asks if there is better coffee than Van Nelle, but the fish says there is no better coffee and reverses the wishes. Then they have other adventures that revolve around the coffee.

Van Nelle was a Rotterdam manufacturer of rolling tobacco, cigarettes, coffee and tea.
In 1782 Johannes van Nelle and his wife Hendrica started a coffee, tea and tobacco shop at the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam. After the death of Johannes van Nelle in 1811, his widow continued the shop. In 1813 the widow also died. Son Johannes van Nelle jr. and his brother-in-law Abraham Goedkoop continued the business under the name De Erven de Wed. J. van Nelle. After the death of Johannes van Nelle Jr., the Van der Leeuw family took a share in the firm in 1837. From 1845, Van Nelle was wholly owned by the Van der Leeuw family.

Jacobus Johannes van der Leeuw expanded the company between 1837 and 1881. He made worldwide trade contacts, founded his own plantations in the Dutch East Indies and developed the shop into a factory for roasting coffee and processing tobacco and tea. Around the turn of the century, coffee and tea became increasingly important. It went well for Van Nelle.

The company distinguished itself by its unique approach, with appealing advertising figures such as Piggelmee. The period around the Second World War was difficult for Van Nelle. But from the 1950s it went under the leadership of director J.P. Coolingh better again.

The introduction of the first freshly ground vacuum-packed coffee under the name Supra in 1962 has contributed significantly to this.