Delft KLM Miniature 87

Delft KLM – 87
Delft Blue miniature KLM house number 87
KLM House number 87 – The Peperhuis is the only building in Enkhuizen that keeps the memory of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) alive.
The wealthy salesman and ship owner Pieter van Beresteyn had it built in 1625. He used it as a home, office and warehouse.
His widow sold it to the VOC in 1682. This illustrious trading company stored pepper and other products from the East in the building until the end of the eighteenth century.
The building was donated to the Zuiderzee Museum in 1947 by the owners at that time, the Enkhuizen seed trading company ‘Sluis en Groot’Height 9cm
Excellent condition still sealed

From 1952 these houses were given to passengers on board of every and all KLM Intercontinental flights in the businessclass. Each passenger baby or grown up, paying or non paying one house. These original Delft Blue miniature houses are real copies of the gable houses alongside the canals in Amsterdam and from time to time for a change also from other historical towns in Holland.

The KLM Miniatures content is a large zip of the famous and only Young Dutch Bols Jenever, distilled by the Bols distilleries.