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Box of "Casino" Nylon 40 socks (medias/calcetines), price $1.00
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Shallow rectangular box for a pair of men's nylon socks. The lid is covered in green flocked (velveteen) paper framing an inset gold foil/metallic label printed "Casino" (script) over "Nylon 60," with a shield trademark enclosing a winged foot and "TRADE MARK." The lower front edge of the box is embossed/printed "10½ MARRÓN" (size 10½; color brown). One end panel carries a small applied foil price sticker, maroon with gold border, reading "Nylon-40 / $1.00." The flocking is worn and the box is split/bumped at the near corner. The socks are not visible; contents not confirmed.
2025.1.374
"Medias" (or calcetines) are socks. This is a packaged men's nylon dress sock — "Nylon 40" referencing the nylon type/denier, a mid-century selling point when nylon hosiery signified modernity. The winged-foot shield is a Mercury/Hermes hosiery trademark motif. The brand name "Casino" and the plush flocked-box-with-gold-foil presentation evoke pre-revolutionary Havana's casino-era consumer glamour, which (with the styling) points toward a 1950s República-era product.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
Socks
Male
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Casino
Date: circa 1950s; tentative. The "Casino" brand and flocked/gold-foil styling suggest a República-era (pre-revolutionary) product — possibly pre-1959, i.e., at or just below the lower edge of the 1959–1990 collection period. Flagged for confirmation.
Lid label: "Casino" / "Nylon 60"; shield trademark with a winged foot and "TRADE MARK." Box front edge: "10½ MARRÓN" (size; color). No maker name or country mark visible. End-panel price sticker: "Nylon-40 / $1.00."
9.5 x 5
Box (cardboard, green flocked covering) with inset gold foil label.
Fair
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use, acquisition