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Thermoformed plastic meat/poultry packaging tray

Object/Artifact

Rectangular shallow tray with rounded corners and a raised, stepped rim. Pale amber to ivory plastic (reads translucent-amber under direct light, opaque ivory otherwise). Floor molded with longitudinal drainage channels flanking central "ladder" rib fields (short transverse rungs) — a standard drainage/absorbent-pad layout for packaged fresh meat or poultry. Molded rectangular cartouches along the top and bottom edges carry the maker codes. Size code implies roughly 19 × 14 cm (footprint unverified — no scale in image).

2025.1.223

Preserved by Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition

2025.1

Maker: Unidentified. A circular molded monogram logo appears beside the "F69" mark; not matched to a known manufacturer (web search inconclusive). Date: Undetermined; no date present. Cannot be confirmed within the 1959–1990 collection range and may fall outside it. Place of Origin: Undetermined.

Inscriptions/Marks (all molded/embossed on the underside): GH; 19-14; F69; 25; and a circular monogram logo (beside F69).

Plastic

Materials: Molded thermoplastic; appearance is consistent with polystyrene or PVC sheet (tentative — no resin-identification code visible). Technique: Thermoformed (vacuum-formed) from extruded sheet (inferred from thin walls and stepped rolled rim).

Fair

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

acquisition

"19-14" likely the tray's nominal dimensions in cm (~19 × 14); "25" possibly a size or catalog code; "GH" and "F69" likely cavity/mold identifiers. Maker: circular monogram logo unidentified; flagged tentative.