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"CLOK" (Maxi) hair-roller box, 10 rollers — empty
Object/Artifact
Tall rectangular tuck-end retail display carton, paperboard, printed in blue and magenta/pink on white, photographed front and back. Front: a top blue band reads "10 ROLLERS," "S. 1367/1073," and "Made in Poland"; below, a pop-illustration of a blonde woman with a flicked 1970s-style coiffure; the brand logo sets "Maxi" in pink script above "CLOK" in a stylized chevron, the letters pierced by die-cut display windows (to show the rollers inside). Vertical blue dashed/ticked stripes run down the side edges. Back: magenta printing in Polish — four bulleted selling points above a line illustration of a hand winding a lock of hair onto a roller. A small printer's mark "Gn2" sits at lower left. Multiple yellowed adhesive-tape repairs cross both faces; edge wear, creasing, and losses throughout; the box is empty.
2025.10.1
Item belonged to donor's aunt. She lives in Matanzas, Cuba, and sent the rollers to the donor's mother, who lives in the US.
A Polish-made set of plastic hair rollers/curlers — an everyday women's grooming accessory. The bilingual packaging (English on the front, Polish on the back) marks it as an export product; Polish consumer goods reached Cuba through socialist-bloc (Comecon) trade, and the piece belongs with the collection's cluster of imported socialist-bloc toiletries and grooming items (alongside Soviet, East German, Bulgarian, and Czechoslovak goods). The Polish back-panel copy promotes the rollers as easy to use, non-damaging to hair, suitable for heat-drying, and able to produce any lasting hairstyle quickly.
2025.10
Oxana Álvarez
Gift
Poland
Eastern Europe
Europe
Brand: CLOK ("Maxi" most likely denoting the large roller size rather than part of the brand name).
Manufacturer/exporter: not named beyond "Made in Poland" (no specific factory or foreign-trade enterprise stated; "S. 1367/1073" appears to be a catalog/reference number; the brand is not documented in available online sources — tentative). Date: tentatively 1970s (possibly into the early 1980s). Based on the illustration and graphic style; no printed date.
Inscription
box top
10 ROLLERS S. 1367/1073 Made in Poland Maxi Lok
English
Inscription
box bottom
ŁATWE W UŻYCIU NIE NISZCZĄ WŁOSOW UMOŻLIWIAJĄ SUSZENIE NA GORĄCO ZAPEWNIAJĄ UZYSKANIE W REKORDOWO KRÓTKIM CZASIE DOWOLNEGO MODELU TRWAŁEJ FRYZURY.
Polish
EASY TO USE DO NOT DAMAGE THE HAIR ALLOW THE DRYING ON HOT ENSURE OBTAINING ANY MODEL OF PERMANENT HAIRSTYLE IN RECORD TIME.
Front: "10 ROLLERS / S. 1367/1073 / Made in Poland"; logo "Maxi CLOK." Back (Polish, with translation): "ŁATWE W UŻYCIU" (easy to use); "NIE NISZCZĄ WŁOSÓW" (do not damage hair); "UMOŻLIWIAJĄ SUSZENIE NA GORĄCO" (allow heat/hot drying); "ZAPEWNIAJĄ UZYSKANIE W REKORDOWO KRÓTKIM CZASIE DOWOLNEGO MODELU TRWAŁEJ FRYZURY" (ensure any lasting hairstyle in record time). Printer's mark "Gn2" at lower left.
3 cm
10 cm
19.5 cm
box
Cardboard
Printed paperboard; pressure-sensitive tape (later repairs). Original contents (plastic rollers) absent.
Fair
Matanzas
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
ownership
Poland
Eastern Europe
Europe
production
Sources: the object itself; web searches did not surface the vintage "CLOK"/"Maxi CLOK" brand (current results are all modern, unrelated roller products), so the maker and the meaning of "S. 1367/1073" remain unconfirmed.