Physical description
Round tin with lid decorated with 6 colourful named pictures on both lid and tin. The pictures relate to words used in a series of early readers. The tin is empty but once contained sweets. It was likely a promotional item by the firm Wolters-Noordhof. Noordhoff is a large educational publisher in The Netherlands.
Inscriptions & markings
Wolters-Noordhof © is printed on the underside of the tin. Also ALLEGRO, Gouderak ℗
References
- Noordhoff Website describing the history of the educational publishers Wolters and Noordhoff both from Groningen. The two firms merged in 1968. Eventually every school in The Netherlands used at least one of their publications.
