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"Snowflake" absorbent cotton wool ("脱脂药棉") roll, 1/16 lb.
Object/Artifact
A small cylindrical roll of medical absorbent cotton wool in its original wrapper. The cotton is rolled and wrapped in black paper, with a printed paper label around the middle. The label, framed by a red rule on a buff ground, reads in blue Chinese characters "脱脂药棉" (absorbent/degreased medicinal cotton) above "ABSORBENT" and, in red script, "Cotton Wool." Below: "1/16 磅装" and "1/16 Lb." (net weight one-sixteenth of a pound), a central circular device (a snowflake/snow-crystal trademark with Chinese characters), "中華人民共和國製造 / MADE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA," and "EXPORTED BY: CHINA NATIONAL CHEMICALS IMPORT & EXPORT CORP. SHANGHAI BRANCH." The package is intact, aged, soiled, and toned; the wrapper paper is worn and stained.
2025.1.138
Medical supplies of Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation
Shanghai
People's Republic of China
Asia
"SNOWFLAKE" (雪花) brand
Maker Chinese state production for export; exported by the China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation, Shanghai Branch (the People's Republic of China's state foreign-trade monopoly for chemical and pharmaceutical goods, commonly known as Sinochem). The actual producing mill is not named; a snowflake/snow-crystal device serves as the export brand/trademark. Date Undetermined; mid-to-late 20th century. The "Made in the People's Republic of China" wording and the China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation export attribution indicate a PRC export product (post-1949). Place of Origin People's Republic of China (exported via Shanghai), per "Made in the People's Republic of China" and the China National Chemicals Import & Export Corp., Shanghai Branch.
"脱脂药棉" (absorbent/degreased medicinal cotton); "ABSORBENT"; "Cotton Wool"; "1/16 磅装"; "1/16 Lb."; central snowflake/snow-crystal trademark device lettered "SNOWFLAKE" (with Chinese characters); "中華人民共和國製造 / MADE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA"; "EXPORTED BY: CHINA NATIONAL CHEMICALS IMPORT & EXPORT CORP. SHANGHAI BRANCH."
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
Shanghai
People's Republic of China
Asia
export city