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Set of four unused cosmetic powder puffs (off white and pale blue)
Object/Artifact
Four small round cosmetic powder puffs of soft, dense pile fabric (plush/velour or wool-type), each a slightly domed circular pad. Two are cream/off-white and two are pale blue/gray. All four are clean and appear unused or barely used — the pile is full, soft, and largely unsoiled, in contrast to the two heavily used puffs elsewhere in the collection. No hand-straps are visible. No maker's marks or labels are visible.
2025.1.246
Kept in a nylon by Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
Good
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
A group of four unused cosmetic powder puffs within the collection's record of personal grooming and everyday material culture. Their clean, unused state — unlike the worn strapped and strapless puffs cataloged earlier — suggests saved or stockpiled stock, consistent with the collection's recurring theme of conserving everyday consumer goods, particularly meaningful in the Cuban context of scarcity, where toiletries and cosmetics were acquired and kept against future need. No maker, origin, or date can be established from the objects.