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Cuba–Vietnam friendship enamel lapel pin
Object/Artifact
Small enameled metal stick‑pin showing two overlapping flags. Upper: the flag of Cuba — red hoist triangle with a white five‑pointed star, and three blue / two white horizontal stripes. Lower: a red flag with a single central yellow‑gold five‑pointed star (the flag of Vietnam). Gold‑tone outlines throughout. Needle (stick‑pin) fastener with a wire catch at the right.
2025.2.17
Belonged to Anna Veltfort, who brought it with her to the United States when she moved back in 1971.
Made in support to the Vietnamese during the Vietnam war.
Anna Veltfort collection
2025.2
Anna Veltfort
Gift
1 cm
1.9 cm
1
Metal
Materials: Enamel on metal (brass/gilt — tentative); metal needle pin. Technique: Die‑struck/stamped metal with colored enamel fill; stick‑pin (needle) fastener.
Good
Anna Veltfort
Owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Acquisition
New York City
New York
U.S.A.
North America
Preservation
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Friendship pins of this type were produced in Cuba to commemorate and affirm the political and solidarity ties between Cuba and allied socialist states. The Cuban-Vietnamese relationship was one of particular resonance: both nations were engaged in armed struggle against US imperialism simultaneously during the 1960s and 1970s, and Cuba provided material, medical, and diplomatic support to Vietnam throughout the war. The overlapping flags — a standard visual grammar of socialist internationalism — render that solidarity as a wearable, everyday object, circulating political allegiance through personal adornment.