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"Snowflake" absorbent cotton wool ("脱脂药棉" / "Coton Hydrophile Chirurgical") roll, 25 g, French-labeled export issue
Object/Artifact
A cylindrical roll of medical absorbent cotton wool in its original wrapper, rolled in black paper with a printed paper label around the middle. The label, framed by a red rule on a buff ground, reads "脱脂药棉" in blue Chinese characters above red lettering "Coton / HYDROPHILE CHIRURGICAL." Below: "25克" and "Par 25 Grs." (net 25 grams), a central snowflake/snow-crystal trademark device lettered "SNOWFLAKE," "中華人民共和國製造 / FABRICATION: DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE," and the exporter line "中國化工進出口公司上海市分公司出口 / EXPORTATION PAR SOCIÉTÉ NATIONALE CHINOISE D'IMPORTATION ET D'EXPORTATION DES PRODUITS CHIMIQUES, CHANGHAI, CHINE." This is the French-language export version of the same product as the collection's two English-labeled "Cotton Wool" rolls. The package is intact, aged, soiled, and toned.
2025.1.248
Medical supplies of Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation
People's Republic of China
Asia
"SNOWFLAKE" (雪花) brand
Maker Chinese state production for export; exported by the China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation, Shanghai Branch (here in its French style, "Société Nationale Chinoise d'Importation et d'Exportation des Produits Chimiques," Shanghai/"Changhai") — the PRC's state foreign-trade monopoly (Sinochem). Producing mill not named; "Snowflake" snow-crystal device is the export brand. Date Undetermined; mid-to-late 20th century. The "Made in the People's Republic of China" wording and the China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation export attribution indicate a PRC export product (post-1949). Place of Origin People's Republic of China (exported via Shanghai), per "Made in the People's Republic of China" and the China National Chemicals Import & Export Corp., Shanghai Branch.
"脱脂药棉"; "Coton"; "HYDROPHILE CHIRURGICAL"; "25克"; "Par 25 Grs."; central snowflake trademark device lettered "SNOWFLAKE"; "中華人民共和國製造 / FABRICATION: DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE"; "中國化工進出口公司上海市分公司出口 / EXPORTATION PAR SOCIÉTÉ NATIONALE CHINOISE D'IMPORTATION ET D'EXPORTATION DES PRODUITS CHIMIQUES / CHANGHAI, CHINE."
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
Shanghai
People's Republic of China
Asia
export city