Vintage coffee tin from Albert Heijn with images of the coffee harvest

Vintage coffee tin from Albert Heijn with images of the coffee harvest

• Manufacturer: Albert Heijn
• Dating: 1960 - 1969

Description
This very beautiful coffee canister is manufactured by Albert Heijn and is equipped with a loose red lid, including a fixed lid with a sprinkle opening. The tin can is decorated with various images related to the coffee bean harvest. The background is vanilla yellow with images of a woman and a man. The tin is refillable from below by means of an insert lid with a tab.

This narrow, but high cylindrical round canister shows some images of a veiled woman with a basket on her head and a South American man with a basket of coffee beans. At the bottom, the tin is marked on the lid with the name "Albert Heijn".

This refillable coffee tin with sprinkle lid has beautiful bright colors, including lilac, red, green, purple and a red lid. Text in bottom: "refilling by 'leval lift' New York City".

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

Dimensions

• Height: 19.5 cm.
• Diameter: 9 cm.

Albert Heijn (AH for short) is the largest Dutch chain of supermarkets, owned by Ahold Delhaize.

Albert Heijn sr. Comes from the Heijn family from Oostzaan. In 1887 he took over from his father Jan Heijn his grocery store in the Kerkbuurt of Oostzaan. Eight years later he opened the first branch in Purmerend and in Zaandam he opened a Central Warehouse in 1899. The basis for its own production companies was laid in 1911, also in Zaandam, where coffee roasting and cake baking began in the kitchen of an old mansion. Factories for rusk, liquorice, coffee, tea, wine and other products appeared along the Zaan. In 1920 the Company for the Exploitation of Factories and Trade was founded. Anton Jurgens of Anton Jurgens' Margarinefabrieken N.V., one of Unilever's predecessors, bought half of the ordinary share capital (which he sold again in 1927 after a disagreement with Mr Heijn). In the same year, son-in-law Johan Hille and sons Jan and Gerrit Heijn took over the management.

Seven years later, in 1927, the store chain celebrated its 40th anniversary. The company now had 107 branches and was awarded the title of Purveyor to the Royal Household. Anton Jurgens was bought out.

Albert Heijn senior died in 1945 at the age of 80. Three years later, the company went public, Albert Heijn Jr. passed away on January 13, 2011.

In 1952 Albert Heijn opened its first self-service store in Schiedam. This is in imitation of Gebroeders van Woerkom, who on November 26, 1946 was the first in the Netherlands to open a self-service shop in Nijmegen, following an American example. On May 25, 1956, the first Albert Heijn supermarket was opened on Nieuwe Binnenweg in Rotterdam. From 1963 Albert Heijn sold coffee under the name Perla.

In 1981 Albert Heijn started with the AH franchise formula, in which independent supermarket entrepreneurs operate under the name AH. In the same year, the campaign started: the country's largest grocer will look after the little ones.

Albert Heijn celebrated its centenary in 1987 and its parent company Ahold was given the title "Royal".

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