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Confetti-lucite "Flower Brand" hair pins (red, pair), on original card
Object/Artifact
Two matching ornamental hair pins, each a marquise/teardrop loop of clear cast plastic with red ground and white/silver confetti flecks over a metal pin, mounted on a pink printed backing card.
2025.6.13
Belonged to Mirta Suquet Martínez
The Martínez Suquet family collection
2025.6
Mirta Suquet
Gift
Shanghai Minghua Hairgrips Mfg. Co.
1980s
Flower Brand
Maker: Flower Brand (花牌) — registered trademark of a Shanghai hairgrip manufacturer (Shanghai Minghua Hairgrips Mfg. Co.). Date: No printed date. Chinese "Flower Brand" export hair accessory; mid-to-late 20th-century style. Plausibly within 1959–1990 but not confirmable from the object, and such goods continued in production later. Place of Origin: Shanghai, China (per card: "中国 上海 / SHANGHAI CHINA").
"Flower Brand" (gold script); gold flower roundel; "中国 上海"; "SHANGHAI CHINA."
2 pins, 1 card
Plastic
Metal
Paper
Materials: Clear cast plastic with metallic foil confetti; metal pins; printed paper card. Technique: Molded/cast plastic ornaments over metal pins; lithographed card.
Good
Mirta Suquet
owner
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use, acquisition