Vintage tin storage container with a watercolour of wooden houses on Marken

Vintage tin storage container with a watercolour of wooden houses on Marken.

• Manufacturer: ...
• Date of manufacture: 1960s

Description
This tin storage container is in an original vintage condition and is fitted with a loose red lid. At the rear, this bus has a so-called folded longitudinal seam. The decoration of this tin consists of a cream-white background with an image of a watercolor showing some characteristic wooden houses on wooden poles with the place name Marken underneath.

A watercolor, via the French aquarelle from the Italian acquarello or acquarella, "washed drawing", is a painting made with watercolour.

Condition
This tin storage container is in an original vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 23 cm.
• Diameter: 15.7 cm.

Marken (Markens: Mereke) is a former island, now a peninsula, in the Markermeer that has been connected to the mainland since 1957 by a dike. The village belongs to the municipality of Waterland in the Dutch province of North Holland.

It was an independent municipality until 1991. In that year the territory was added to the municipality of Waterland.

The former fishing village has been a tourist attraction for at least a century. Marken's striking traditional costume contributed to this. The wooden houses on stilts are characteristic. Even older are the so-called "werven", artificial elevations on which people lived.