The first batch of pictures below originate from a 1921 photo shoot made in honour of Klaas Pieter Plantinga's 75th birthday. These were kindly provided by a Plantinga descendant whose name has unfortunately been lost.

Klaas Plantinga, inventor of Plantiac

The house at Groot Zand (recent pictures on this page by Johan van der Weide)

The production floor

Plantinga Cognac boilery

Distillery kettle number One

Barrel storage

Plantinga Distillery production personnel

Plantinga Shop, Dijkstraat 7, Bolsward (recent pictures on this page by Johan van der Weide)

Shop interior

The back office

The 'small office'

The packaging room

The wine cellar

Last Klaas Plantinga abode (picture by Johan van der Weide)

The Plantinga family grave (pictures by Johan van der Weide)

The following pictures were callously purloined from a genealogy site that contained some Plantinga data...

Klaas Plantinga, inventor of Plantiac

Ytje Plantinga, Klaas' wife

Gerrit Herman Plantinga, who thought of the name "Plantiac"

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