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Souvenir keychain (llavero), emblem of the joint Cuban-Soviet space flight (Intercosmos / Soyuz-38)

Object/Artifact

Gold-tone (gilt base-metal) keychain comprising a sprung key shackle/clasp, a short curb chain, and a circular enameled medallion pendant. The medallion's face carries a champlevé-style enamel emblem: a red five-pointed star set against a gold ground, overlaid/flanked by a green (teal) stylized logogram — a curved hook at lower left, a vertical bar, and a sweeping baseline that together read as a modernist institutional or event monogram (the emblem of the Cuban-Soviet space flight). The reverse is finished with an all-over cross-hatched texture and impressed "HECHO EN CUBA."

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Souvenir keychain (llavero), emblem of the joint Cuban-Soviet space flight (Intercosmos / Soyuz-38) - Image 2

2025.14.3

Daysi García López kept it at home with other of her works.

Vuelo Espacial Conjunto Cubano-Soviético

Daysi García López collection

2025.14

Gift

circa 1980

1970s

1980s

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Commissioned by the Departamento de Orientación Revolucionaria (DOR) Date: Circa 1980 — commemorating the September 1980 flight; production year unconfirmed but tied to the 1980 event.

Front enamel emblem = symbol of the vuelo espacial conjunto cubano-soviético; reverse impressed "HECHO EN CUBA."

Metal

Materials: Gilt base metal (medallion, chain, clasp); colored vitreous or cold enamel (red, green) inlay. Technique: Stamped/cast metal medallion with champlevé-style filled enamel; cross-hatched textured reverse with impressed country mark; assembled with jump rings, curb chain, and a sprung key shackle.

Poor

Daysi García López

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

preservation

Vuelo Espacial Conjunto Cubano-Soviético

Emblem identified as the mark of the first joint Cuban-Soviet crewed spaceflight (Soyuz-38, 18–26 Sept 1980; commander Yuri Romanenko and Cuban cosmonaut-researcher Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban, first Latin American, and first person of African descent in space; 7th Intercosmos mission).