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Lenticular ("stereo-vario") pocket calendar, 1987 — Soviet export for the Cuban (Spanish-language) market

Object/Artifact

Small rectangular lenticular pocket-calendar card with rounded corners and a finely ribbed lens surface. The picture side flips between two interlaced frames: (1) a three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship under full pale-yellow sail on blue swells; (2) three cartoon children riding in an inverted umbrella used as a boat — one standing and pointing ahead while gripping the umbrella's hooked handle as a mast — over the same stylized waves. The umbrella handle "ghosts" faintly through the sky of the ship frame, confirming the two images share a single interlaced lens. The reverse carries a printed 1987 calendar: twelve months in Spanish (enero–diciembre) in four rows of three, weekday columns lettered L M M J V S D (lunes–domingo, week beginning Monday), with Sundays/holidays in red, all within a dotted diamond border.

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Lenticular ("stereo-vario") pocket calendar, 1987 — Soviet export for the Cuban (Spanish-language) market - Image 2 Lenticular ("stereo-vario") pocket calendar, 1987 — Soviet export for the Cuban (Spanish-language) market - Image 3

2025.11.34

2025.11

Purchase

VBPK

1986

1980s

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

Reverse — "© Hecho en la URSS · VBPK" and "1987" (red); full Spanish monthly grid with L M M J V S D weekday initials. Picture side — none.

Materials: Lithographically printed paper/card laminated to a ribbed plastic (acrylic) lenticular lens sheet; verso offset-printed in black and red on the paper backing. Technique: Lenticular ("stereo-vario"/переливной) flip printing on the obverse; two-color (black and red) offset lithography for the calendar grid on the verso.

Good

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

production

The paired frames read as a "reality/imagination" conceit — children in a makeshift umbrella-boat picturing themselves aboard a grand tall ship — a common device for flip lenticulars. The specific source (a particular cartoon or illustrated tale) is unidentified

The Spanish-language imprint "Hecho en la URSS" paired with an all-Spanish calendar establishes this as a Soviet export novelty made for the Spanish-speaking (Cuban) market.