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Snap Fasteners ("999" / Double Lion brand) on Original Retail Card

Object/Artifact

Sewing notions — press-stud snap fasteners on their original printed retail card. The front (image 1) is teal/blue with a white flower-shaped field holding five snaps around a central roundel reading "MODEL 999" (red numerals) with a Chinese character ("型," "type/model") beneath. The reverse (image 2) is printed in red with Chinese text "中国制造" (Made in China), "MADE IN CHINA," a circular guarantee trademark (star within a ring of "999"s and characters reading "双狮牌," "Double Lion brand"), the partial English words "…the guarant[eed] tradema[rk]," and a brand word (partly legible, "…utterfly"/roman script) — shows the socket sides of the snaps.

2025.1.405

Belonged to María A. Arús Caraballo

Mass-produced Chinese sewing notions of the same family as the "Butterfly" snaps cataloged previously. Chinese haberdashery reached Cuba through trade with China and the socialist bloc.

The Cabrera Arús family collection

María A. Arús Caraballo collection

2025.1

Double Lion

People's Republic of China

Asia

Brand/model: "999" (Model 999); trademark "双狮牌" (Double Lion brand), shown as a circular "guaranteed trademark" device.

No date printed. "Made in China" export notions of this style span much of the later 20th century.

Front: "MODEL 999"; "型" (type/model) Back: "中国制造" (Made in China); "MADE IN CHINA"; circular trademark with "999" and "双狮牌" (Double Lion brand); "…the guarant[eed] tradema[rk]"; partial roman-script brand word

1 retail card holding 5 snaps

Metal

Cardboard

Metal snaps (base metal — possibly blackened/japanned steel or brass; confirm); printed paper/card mount.

Fair

María A. Arús Caraballo

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

acquisition

People's Republic of China

Asia

production