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EGREM promotional leather key fob
Object/Artifact
Teardrop/spade-shaped white leather key fob with a brass split-ring at the top. A square gold-tone metal plaque is fixed to the leather by a small metal loop with a black spacer. The plaque carries EGREM's logo — a gold rainbow/arch of nested concentric arcs above the segmented wordmark "EGREM." The reverse is plain, unmarked white leather.
2025.20.3
2025.20
Gift
Maker: Branded for EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales), Cuba's national record label. The keychain's actual manufacturer is not identified. Date: Undated. Postdates EGREM's founding (31 March 1964); cannot be confirmed within 1959–1990 and may fall outside it. Logo style suggests 1970s–80s (tentative). Place of Origin: Cuba (EGREM is a Cuban state enterprise; the fob's place of manufacture is not marked). Tentative on manufacture.
Front plaque: "EGREM" wordmark beneath a nested-arch (rainbow) device Reverse: none (plain leather)
Materials: White leather (or leatherette); gold-tone metal plaque, split-ring, and mounting loop; black spacer. Technique: Etched/engraved gold-tone metal plaque (logo recessed into a gilt/anodized plate); leather fob with stapled/riveted hardware.
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EGREM
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
EGREM, founded 1964 from the nationalized recording industry, dominated Cuban music production into the late 1980s; promotional items like this fob document its institutional presence in everyday material culture.