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Maté Tea Set
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration1943
U.S. National Archives
United States
Maté tea bowl mounted on a silver stand. A picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt is on one side of the bowl (which is a carved gourd) and on the opposite side is a gold star. Carved gourd signed: "G. Jimenez, Caacupé, Paraguay." Comes with silver-plated straw with a bowl shaped end with several small holes, perhaps to filter tea leaves and decorated with a leaf design on the handle. Presented to FDR in May 1943 by General Higinio Morinigo, President of Paraguay. FDR Library Museum Collection, MO 1944.2.1 & MO 1944.2.2.
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- Title: Maté Tea Set
- Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
- Date: 1943
- Location: Caacupé, Paraguay
- Physical Dimensions: Maté tea bowl dimensions bowl and stand: 8" high x 3 3/8" diameter. Straw dimensions: 9 1/2" long x 7/8" w x 1/2" d
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