Posted 10 years ago
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- Cocktail stirrer (or "swizzle stick") -- VARIG Airlines (Brazil)
- Molded Varig Airlines star emblem / Varig Airlines embossed on stem
- Reverse is blank / tan color plastic base / 6" long / circa mid-1980's
- VARIG (acronym for Viacao Aerea Rio-Grandense) was the first airline founded in Brazil in 1927. - From 1965 until 1990 it was Brazil's leading and almost only international airline. - In 2006 it was split into two companies, "old" Varig - now defunct, and "new" Varig - an airline now integrated into Gol Airlines.
