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Keepsake "date" coaster, "Nuestra Cita…" (blank)
Object/Artifact
Round coaster printed in red on a cream ground. A script header reads "Nuestra Cita…" ("Our Date…"), accompanied by small four-petal flower motifs and a vignette of a bottle flanked by two cocktail glasses with straws. Below are printed fill-in lines labeled "en:", "a:", "de:", and "fecha:" — all left blank. The board is lightly speckled/foxed.
2025.1.302
A romantic novelty/keepsake coaster meant for a couple to record the details of a date (place, time, and date) as a memento of an outing. It matches the red-line drawing/lettering style, round pulpboard stock, and format of the companion coasters in the collection, indicating the same series; Cuban origin is likely by association, though it is unmarked.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
Date: undetermined; tentatively 1970s–1980s (style and stock; matches the companions). Not closely datable. Place: likely Cuba (tentative — inferred from the matching series; no mark on this example).
Inscription
Front of coaster
Nuestra cita... en: a: de: fecha:
Spanish
Our date... in: at: of: date:
Printed
Diameter: 9.5
Cardboard
Pressed wood-pulp coaster board; red printing ink.
Good
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America