Rectangular antique tin with hinged lid, "A. Driessen, Dessert-chocolaad", silver colored

Rectangular antique tin with hinged lid, "A. Driessen, Dessert-chocolaad", silver colored. 

• Manufacturer: N.V. Dordrechtsche Metaalwarenfabriek v / h Wed. J. Bekkers & Son
• Date of manufacture: 1915 - 1920​

Description
Rectangular black with silver colored tin box with rounded corners with a hinged lid. The lid shows the product name and company name A. Driessen in relief in an oval. Two anthropomorphic creatures with bird heads and wings on either side. Patterned torso and abdomen from acanthus leaf. Straight edge decoration with a few semicircles, in relief.

The birds on either side are the so-called griffin. A griffin, also known as gripping bird or Vogel Grijp, is a hybrid mythical animal that symbolizes rule over two realms. The griffin originally comes from the mythology of the Scythians and Ancient Greece.

On the front and back of this tin also the company name, in relief, with per frame a frame of an acanthus leaf. On the sides the product name in a kind of oval with a leaf motif on either side. Left on the back of the lid rim, in a circle, the intertwined letters "B" and "D".

Text / inscription / brand Lid: "DESSERT-CHOCOLAAD / A.DRIESSEN", "Zie voor den inhoud van deze trommel sluitzegel.", "GEGARANDEERD / NETTO 1/2 KILO." (in oval), border: "WED. J. BEKKERS & ZOON DORDRECHT (Holland)". Front- and back side: "A D R I E S S E N" (in reliëf]) Sides: "DESSERT / CHOCOLAAD" (in oval).

Condition
This antique chocolate tin from the period 1915 - 1920 is in a very neat and original vintage condition with normal traces of use and minimal age-related traces of wear.

Dimensions

• Height: 3.5 cm
• Length: 25 cm.
• Width: 18.2 cm.

A. Driessen is a Dutch chocolate brand name. A. Driessen's factory has been located in Rotterdam since 1820.

The raw material cocoa came from the then colony of Suriname. In 1854, the Driessen Cocoa and Chocolate Factory in the Rubroek district of Rotterdam became operational. Later the company was relocated to the Judge Rottekade there.

In 1871 the company was named purveyor to the supplier. The factory was expanded in 1893 and by the end of the century Driessen was one of the most important chocolate companies in the Netherlands. After the outbreak of a crisis on the cocoa market in 1907, raw material prices rose sharply. However, it was the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression that killed the factory. Driessen was taken over by the Breda chocolate factory Kwatta in 1935. The company is shut down and production transferred to the production facility in Princenhage, which opened in 1921. After more than a century, the once famous company came to an end.

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