In the 1950s, this illuminated advertisement indicated that the premises housed a café. A ‘brown café,’ that is: a typical Dutch…

‘On the eleventh of February/ Nineteen hundred and twenty-three/ this certificate, together with accompanying decorative…

Who doesn’t know them: the azure water siphons so popular as interior decoration? They evoke the nostalgic atmosphere of…

This is a conductometer, also known as a conductivity meter. It is used to measure the electrical conductivity of liquids,…

‘You’re not pulling my leg, are you?’ Freddy Heineken seems to be asking with that one permanently raised eyebrow. His…

When Piet, Ben and Arthur Dumouleyn from Hontenisse in the province of Zeeland decided to continue their brewery in Suriname…