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Drink stirrer (ball-and-trident) — blue
Object/Artifact
Single opaque mid-blue plastic drink stirrer: a round ball knob at the top, a plain shaft, and a three-tined trident terminal at the bottom. The upper shaft is embossed with a maker's acronym and HECHO EN CUBA. No establishment or product branding.
2025.25.14
María Teresa Cornide Hernández collection
2025.25
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Maker: Cuban manufacturer; acronym embossed but not securely read (appears "I.P.S.A." or similar) — unidentified. "HECHO EN CUBA" confirms Cuban manufacture. Date: Cannot be confirmed within 1959–1990 and may fall outside it. The generic ball-and-trident form isn't datable on its own; if the acronym ends "S.A.," that corporate form in Cuba points to either the pre-1959 era or the post-1990 reforms (state enterprises generally avoided "S.A." in between) — but that's a weak, uncertain inference. (Undatable.)
Embossed on the upper shaft: [I.P.S.A.?] HECHO EN CUBA (leading acronym a tentative reading). Small square mold mark on the ball. No establishment brand.
Plastic
Materials: Molded plastic (polystyrene/polypropylene), opaque mid-blue. Technique: Injection-molded; integral ball knob and trident terminal.
Good
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
The acronym is not securely legible and no matching Cuban plastics enterprise was found; the unrelated Salvadoran "Industrias Plásticas S.A. (IPSA)" should not be conflated.