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Snap Fasteners (“Butterfly” brand) on Original Retail Cards
Object/Artifact
Sewing notions — press-stud snap fasteners (machos y hembras / socket-and-stud snaps) mounted on their original printed retail cards. Each card is teal/blue with a white flower-shaped field holding six snaps around a central roundel bearing a butterfly device and the brand name "Butterfly" in red script, with a punched hole for peg display. Three cards present in varying condition; the back of one card reads "…E IN CHINA" (i.e., "MADE IN CHINA") with the "Butterfly" name and shows the reverse (socket) sides of the snaps.
2025.20.31
Mass-produced Chinese sewing notions. "Butterfly" was a widely exported Chinese consumer brand; such imported haberdashery reached Cuba through trade with socialist-bloc and allied countries.
2025.20
Gift
People's Republic of China
Asia
Brand: "Butterfly" (butterfly device + red script wordmark).
Research confirms 蝴蝶牌/"Butterfly" as a famous Shanghai sewing brand (a century-old Shanghai lao zihao trademark, now held by Shanghai Butterfly Imp. & Exp. / SGSB Group, registered in 80+ countries) — but every source ties it to sewing machines, not haberdashery. It is plausible the snap cards used the same Shanghai brand.
Card front: "Butterfly" (red script); butterfly device Card back: "Butterfly"; "[MAD]E IN CHINA"
3 retail cards; each holds up to 6 snaps
Cardboard
Metal
Metal snaps (base metal — possibly nickel-plated brass/steel; confirm); printed paper/card mounts.
Fair
People's Republic of China
Asia