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Bottle of "Graffis" rubber-stamp ink

Object/Artifact

A small cylindrical glass bottle of dark glass with a black ribbed screw cap, containing rubber-stamp ink. The paper front label, on a green and black ground, shows a stylized black silhouette of a hand rubber-stamp (gomígrafo) above the text "TINTA PARA GOMIGRAFOS," with the brand "grafis" in script within an oval, and a lower caption "PRODUCTOS DOMESTICOS / CAPDEVILA, LA HABANA" and "HECHO EN CUBA E.J.P.D." The label is abraded and torn, with losses at the upper corner and along the lower edge, and ink staining over the brand oval. Contents is present.

2025.1.148

Office materials of Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection

2025.1

E.J.P.D.

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

"Graffis" is the product/brand.

Maker: "E.J.P.D." ("Empresa [—] de Productos Domésticos"), with the middle initial undetermined. Capdevila is a locality in Havana (Boyeros area).

"TINTA PARA GOMIGRAFOS"; "grafis" (script, in an oval); "PRODUCTOS DOMESTICOS / CAPDEVILA, LA HABANA"; "HECHO EN CUBA E.J.P.D." (leading letters lost to label damage). Gomígrafo (rubber-stamp) silhouette graphic.

Good

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

production, acquisition, use