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Gift presentation box, "Felicidades," with firework/pinwheel print (empty)
Object/Artifact
Two-piece rigid paperboard set-up box (separate lift-off lid over a base/tray), rectangular, covered inside and out with cream paper printed with a repeating radiating "firework/pinwheel" (Catherine-wheel) motif alternating magenta/pink and blue. The lid rests askew over the base, which holds loosely crumpled white tissue paper (original packing). On the lid is a torn remnant of a small red/maroon printed paper seal reading "Felicidades." Surfaces show heavy age soiling, water-staining, and scattered brown foxing.
2025.1.274
Preserved by Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
A gift/greeting presentation box: the red seal's word "Felicidades" (Spanish, "Congratulations / Best wishes") marks it as celebratory packaging — the kind used to present a present for a birthday, holiday, Mother's Day, or New Year — and the radiating-burst pattern reinforces the festive, firework-like theme. The Spanish text places it in a Hispanophone, most likely Cuban, retail/gift context rather than the imported-toiletry stream. Empty; its original contents are unknown, though a boxed toiletry or small gift is plausible given the surrounding collection.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition
2025.1
Date: undetermined (tentatively mid-20th century on stylistic grounds; not fixable from the object). May be pre-1959.
Torn remnant of a small red/maroon printed paper seal on the lid, reading "Felicidades." No other lettering, maker's mark, or origin statement visible on the exterior or interior.
3.5 cm
12 cm
19 cm
Lift-off lid; base/tray. (Both present.)
tissue paper
Crumpled white tissue paper (original packing material), present inside the base.
Cardboard
Rigid paperboard/cardboard; lithographed paper covering; tissue paper; remnant of a printed paper seal.
Fair