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Ortex Gold origami menstrual tampon (the Netherlands, 1972) (the same as Ortex in the Netherlands and earlier, Cameo in Japan)

Read the discussion on the first page.

In 1997 Tambrands gave the box to this museum as part of an amazing gift of 450 boxes of tampons dating to the founding of the second Tampax company, 1936, plus hundreds of other items. And thanks to a Dutch contributor for pointing out the British connection and sending proof, these scans.

The Dutch contributor writes, "The instructions are one sheet measuring 107 mm x 83 mm; if folded, it has 4 pages."
Aha! Those are the same pictures showing the origami tampon for the Japanese Anshin and Cameo tampons!
Even today women curse when they think of sitting in the public toilet and dropping the *@$%*&&**!
tampon into the toilet, not sticking it into the %^@#$##**!! tube.
 
 
Below: an ad for the British version of the tampon, Cameo (from Woman's Mirror (May 22, 1965), with an enlargement of the last, fuzzy lines.
 
 

End. Main Ortex page. See the Japanese (Cameo and Anshin) versions of this tampon. Japanese tampon with finger cots - Shampon Young Japanese stick tampons - ad for Elldy tampon with
applicator (October 1996) - Kotex stick tampon (U.S.A.) - ad for the Kotex stick tampon (1970s)

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