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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 368569, member: 2844&quot;]Hello Fien, those are gorgeous. I think some of them are earlier, the flapper girl certainly looks 1920s.</p><p>Turmac was a Dutch company called the &#039;Turkish Macedonian Tobacco Company&#039;. They manufactured so-called Egyptian cigarettes, a Turkish blend which was very popular in the Netherlands at the time. My grandfather always smoked Egyptian cigarettes, from a box with pyramids and camels on it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Turmac had all sorts of merchandise, including beautiful tins:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Turmac.jpg/250px-Turmac.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>They were located in Zevenaar, and the local museum still has a Turmac collection.</p><p>This is the site (sorry everybody, it is in Dutch):</p><p><a href="http://www.liemersmuseum.nl/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.liemersmuseum.nl/" rel="nofollow">http://www.liemersmuseum.nl/</a></p><p>You could ask them about your patches, this is the contact info:</p><p><a href="mailto:museuminfo@liemerskunstwerk.nl">museuminfo@liemerskunstwerk.nl</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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