Vintage cookie or biscuit tin with an illustration of the Zaanse Schans

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Vintage cookie or biscuit tin with an illustration of the Zaanse Schans

• Manufacturer: Patria Quality Biscuits
• Date of manufacture: 1950 - 1970

Description
This Patria tin is in good vintage condition and has a hinged lid. The sides of this tin are decorated with a moss green background, on which a panorama in black and white of the Zaanse Schans. On the lid a watercolor with Zaanse houses and a windmill.

This tin has been marked with a sticker. Unfortunately this has disappeared.

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

Dimensions

• Height: 5 cm.
• Length: 26 cm.
• Width: 17 cm.

Biscuit factory Patria in Amsterdam can boast of having introduced the Rijksmuseum to many Dutch families. Many will remember the large tin of biscuits – called “jaws” in some parts of the country – with the image of the Rijksmuseum pressed into the lid, which could be found on many living room tables in the 1950s.

Biscuits, rusks and the well-known crackers were made at Patria. In 1978, the Patria factory on the Haarlemmerweg was in the spotlight throughout the country. The women who worked there campaigned against the closure of the company. They even occupied the factory for a week. Eventually the factory closed. It was demolished in 1981.

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