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Cubana de Aviación

Maker: Cubana de Aviación (Cuba's national airline) — promotional/in-flight barware; stirrer manufacturer not marked. Date: Not closely datable from the object. The airline has run continuously since 1929, so the brand doesn't fix a date; the aged plastic and mid-century logo style suggest mid-20th-century manufacture, plausibly around the pre/post-1959 boundary, but this cannot be confirmed within 1959–1990 and may fall outside it. (Tentative; boundary/transitional.)

Embossed Cubana de Aviación logo on the paddle (diagonal bar with three parallelogram panels within a rhomboid border); small embossed cavity number ("4") on the shaft. No other text.

Plastic

Materials: Molded plastic (polystyrene/acrylic), originally pale yellow, now amber-discolored/stained with age. Technique: Injection-molded stirrer with integrally embossed logo; ball-foot terminal.

Fair

Cubana de Aviación, founded 1929, is Cuba's flag carrier and one of the oldest airlines in Latin America. Pre-1959 it had Pan American involvement and flew international routes (including to the US and Madrid); after the 1959 revolution it was nationalized as the state airline, reorienting toward socialist-bloc and other destinations. An airline-branded stirrer like this would have served in-flight bar/lounge contexts.