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Cuban flag enamel pin commemorating the yacht Granma
Object/Artifact
Small rectangular gilt-metal brooch-pin enameled with the Cuban national flag shown as if waving — a red triangle at the hoist bearing a white five-pointed star, the flag's blue stripes in blue enamel and the white stripes left as raised gilt, furling across the field. The yacht Granma is struck in relief across the lower portion as a cabin cruiser with a low superstructure and a row of portholes, with a strip of red enamel along the bottom edge. A small wire loop projects at the left edge.
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Gift
Maker: Not identified; the reverse bears no maker's mark or country stamp. Manufacture origin undetermined — Cuban-made or a socialist-bloc commemorative are both plausible. Date: Undated. Style (gilt champlevé enamel, brooch clasp) and revolutionary subject suggest the 1960s–80s, but this cannot be confirmed within 1959–1990. Tentative. Place of Origin: Subject is Cuban; place of manufacture not determinable from the object. Tentative/undetermined.
Materials: Gold-plated copper-alloy/brass; champlevé enamel (red, blue); white rendered as bare gilt; metal brooch pin. Technique: Die-struck metal with recessed (champlevé) enamel fill under a gilt finish; vessel rendered in unpainted struck relief; soldered safety-pin–style brooch clasp on the reverse with a central solder boss.
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Granma's landing
Commemorates the yacht Granma, which carried Fidel Castro and 81 others from Tuxpan, Mexico, to a landing in eastern Cuba on 2 December 1956 — a foundational revolutionary symbol (the vessel is enshrined at the Museum of the Revolution and lends its name to the Party newspaper and to Granma province). The pin pairs the national flag with the Granma as paired emblems of the Revolution. The absence of any reverse mark leaves manufacture origin open