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Blackboard eraser, MINED (Cuban Ministry of Education)
Object/Artifact
A rectangular chalkboard eraser ("borrador de pizarra") with a molded green plastic body. The top face has a recessed panel embossed with the outline map of Cuba and the legend "MINED – CUBA" (upper right); the long edges have a scalloped/wavy molded profile. The underside carries a felt/wool erasing pad (mottled grey-brown, embedded with chalk dust and multicolored lint from use) seated in the plastic base.
2025.11.46
2025.11
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MINED
Cuba
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Maker: MINED — Ministerio de Educación de Cuba — per the embossed "MINED – CUBA" mark. State-issued school supply; the manufacturing enterprise is not separately named. Date: Post-1959. The Ministry of Education existed before 1959 but rose to prominence after the Revolution, with the literacy campaign and expansion of public schools; the MINED acronym and outline-of-Cuba emblem are revolutionary-era branding. Most plausibly 1960s–1980s (within range); no printed date, so the exact year is unconfirmed and the upper bound is open (MINED still operates).
Top — embossed outline map of Cuba and "MINED – CUBA." No date or manufacturing-enterprise mark.
Materials: Molded green plastic body; felt/wool erasing pad (the multicolored fibers suggest reclaimed/recycled wool felt). Technique: Molded plastic body with intaglio-embossed map and lettering; felt pad attached to the base.
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MINED