As we are really getting into this, Rimac was the pulled together name of an entrepreneur who, together with his wife Corrie, was running a demand and supply business in household stuff. The man's name was Marinus Machielse, hence Rimac.
Right after WWII he peddled from shop to shop to find out what was needed and by the 1960s he had specialised in necessaties for garden and animals (think here of bowls for dogs, chicken feeders etc). The sticker on their wares showed the crest of the city of Baarn (their home town).
In 1980 son Wilco took over the business, modernised the company which nevertheless went bust in 1981. Not all Wilco's fault. East Germany had completely taken over the market, selling for prices no one could compete with.
In their heyday, crocus pots were one of their best selling articles (30 models available, selling 10.000 pots a year). Hyacinth vases were only a sideline, made in every colour imaginable as they were defenitely an 'end of day' article with what ever glass was left in the pot. Sometimes leftover stock from another factory was completely bought up as well. That's how it is possible to find one and the same hyacinth vase with a Suessmuth sticker (German glass factory selling to the German market) or a Rimac sticker (buying up stock and selling it to the Dutch market). In the Holland hyacinth vase business (sellers and buyers) we all talk about Rimac vases but we all know the story behind it.
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Patricia