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"Fantasía" lipstick (Creyón labial), orange/coral shade
Object/Artifact
Swivel-type lipstick with a fluted (vertically ribbed) metal barrel sleeve, a black molded-plastic push-on cap, and a black molded-plastic base. Capped, the tube reads as a plain black cylinder with a bright metal seam-band at the cap/base join. Uncapped, the metal barrel — now heavily tarnished/oxidized to a dark greenish-grey over an originally bright gilt or silvered finish — rises from the black base and carries a white inner collar holding an orange-to-coral bullet, used and irregularly worn, with surface mottling/spotting.
2025.1.358
Belonged to Gertrudis Caraballo
"Creyón labial" is the Cuban term for lipstick. Fantasía was the flagship makeup line of Cuba's nationalized perfumery-cosmetics industry (creyón labial offered in 11 shades; companion lines Prisma, Realce, Alondra, Cirene), documented in Cuba Material's catalog of state-produced cosmetics. This fluted-metal-barrel casing differs from the plastic-cased Fantasía examples previously recorded (Rojo Claro; Ilusión), indicating the line — or its supplier casings — varied over time; metal fluted sleeves often signal earlier (1960s) packaging conventions.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition
2025.1
MINIL
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Fantasía
Manufacturer: Cuban state perfumery-cosmetics industry, likely Empresa de Perfumería y Jabonería Suchel (Suchel lineage; predecessor Empresa Consolidada de Jabonería y Perfumería, founded 1961) — tentative. Date: circa 1960s–1970s; tentative (metal fluted barrel suggests earlier styling than the plastic-cased examples).
Inscription
cap
golden flower that identifies the brand Fantasía
Diameter: 1.8 Height: 6.8
6.8 cm
1.8 cm
Cap (black plastic); fluted barrel sleeve (metal) with white inner swivel mechanism and base (black plastic); lipstick bullet (product).
Plastic
Metal (fluted barrel sleeve; gilt or silvered finish, now oxidized); molded plastic (black cap and base); plastic (white inner collar); lipstick mass (wax/oil/pigment). —identified from photo, check item.
Fair
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use, acquisition
Shade name undocumented (no base label). A reader comment on Cuba Material recalls a Fantasía creyón shade "Llamarada" (lit. "blaze," an orange-red) — a speculative possible match to this orange/coral bullet; do not assert without the label. Check material composition.