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Keychain with clear plastic fob enclosing a goat emblem
Object/Artifact
A keychain consisting of a rounded, roughly triangular clear cast-plastic (Lucite/acrylic-type) fob on a short metal link chain with a D-shaped split key ring at the top. Embedded inside the transparent fob is a printed disc showing a central figure of a goat (a standing or rearing goat with a beard and horns) within concentric ring borders, ringed by a radiating sunburst/fan pattern, printed in black on a pale ground. The plastic is clouded, partly obscuring the image; the metal ring and chain are tarnished. It is a souvenir/novelty keychain.
2025.1.62
Possibly used or gifted to José A. Cabrera Pérez by his wife
Purchased in state store by Maria A Arús Caraballo as per her testimony.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
MAKER: Unknown; unmarked. No maker's mark or text is legible in the views. A mass-produced novelty keychain; the producer is not identified. DATE / PERIOD: Not marked; undetermined. Cast-acrylic souvenir fobs of this type are broadly mid-to-late twentieth century; no closer date can be fixed from the object. ORIGIN: Not established from the object (no country mark).
MARKINGS / INSCRIPTIONS: Pictorial only — a goat within concentric circular borders and a radiating fan/sunburst surround, printed in dark blue. No legible text, name, or maker's mark is visible.
MATERIALS: Clear cast plastic (acrylic/Lucite-type) fob enclosing a printed paper or film disc; white-metal chain and split ring. TECHNIQUES: A printed emblem disc set into clear plastic cast/embedded around it to form the fob, drilled and looped to a machine-made link chain and a stamped D-ring.
Fair
José A. Cabrera Pérez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
This is a novelty/souvenir keychain whose interest lies in its embedded emblem — a goat set within a roundel and a radiating border. The goat is the identifying motif, but what it signifies is not determinable from the object alone, and there are several plausible readings that should be recorded as open rather than chosen: a zodiac sign (Capricorn, the goat, is the most common keychain use of a goat emblem, often issued in horoscope sets); a heraldic or institutional badge (a goat appears in the arms and emblems of various towns, clubs, regiments, and brands); or a mascot or advertising device. Without legible text or a recognizable crest, none of these can be confirmed; the concentric-ring-and-sunburst framing is generic to badge and medallion design and does not by itself decide the question.