My Things, Bremke's Kaffeedose

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
sold - verkauft - vendu

This beautiful tin must be about 100 years old. When you look carefully you will see that at the top it has writing on it in the old former German style, which I can't even decript. If it didn't have the name written in the new style on the side I would not have known, that this coffee used to be produced by the company "Bremke".

Kaffee

For years I have been using this nice coffee container in my kitchen but only today I realized that it is actually quite an antiquity! At lunch my husband worried what had happened to HIS coffee container, as he had noticed it was not at it's usual place (but in my studio). A bit amused about his concern over a shabby old tin he told me that he had inherited it from his mother, who had inherited it from her mother who had inherited it from her mother!!! So, this old shabby tin, this beautiful object, is about 140 years old!!! WOW!




oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
sold - verkauft - vendu