Antique enamel sign, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt cigars

Antique enamel sign, super rare!

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt cigars.
My sublime
NV cigar factory of Gebroeders Majoor Beverwijk.

Board is 74 cm high x 49 cm wide.
The plate is approximately 90 to 100 years old.

As can be seen in the photos, it is severely damaged, but it is so rare that this remains a collector's item for a connoisseur and enthusiast.

Can be picked up for €320 or can be shipped at an additional cost.

If interested, call 0651694940 or send a message.

For your information;
Mr. F. Majoor's cigar factory was founded in Beverwijk in 1856 and started with one cigar maker, while they had their own shop on Breestraat (no. 84) for the sale of tobacco and cigars.
The business developed well and major expansions took place in the early twentieth century.
Large plots of land with buildings were purchased between Breestraat and Koningstraat, especially in 1919 a large complex was purchased.
In 1924, Majoor employed approximately 600 employees and the Beverwijk cigar factory was one of the largest in the country.
The cigar brands Binnenhof and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt were very well known in the Netherlands and the then overseas territories in the 1930s.
Between 1930 and 1940, the time of the crisis years, business went downhill and in 1936 the cigar factory NV of the Majoor brothers was declared bankrupt.
Attempts were made to save the business (including by Willem van Dok, who had also reorganized the auction business in Beverwijk and thus saved it from collapse), but the battle for jobs did not help much even then.
The company continued for some time in a building on Koningstraat on the corner of Marktplein.
The Melchers cigarette factory used to be located in that building.
However, the cigar factory no longer flourished and was eventually closed down.