See the Turkish Tampex & TamPak tampons, 1973
 
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Sanpax(d?) menstrual tampons, Switzerland? Israel? 1969-1970
Tampons
Main discussion.
Tambrands kindly donated the box as part of a large
gift from its archives.
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Below: The tampon with tubes measures about
5.2" long (about 13 cm). The paper wrapper bears no writing; the Tampax,
below, does.
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Compare regular Tampax from the same year, 1970, below.
They look very similar in their cardboard tubes. I
wonder if sanpax(d) infringed on the Tampax patent.
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Below: The box containing the above Tampax,
reduced in size, which Tambrands donated to this museum. Someone at that
company marked the box. The box is almost exactly the size as the sanpax(d)
box.
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Back to sanpax(d), below. The cotton plug
measures about 2.25 x 0.5" (about 5.7 x 1.3 cm) and the string about
4.75 " (about 12 cm) long. The inner (upper here) tube measures about
2.85 x 0.5" (about 7.3 cm x 1.3 cm), the outer about 2.75 x 5.1"
(about 7 x 1.31 cm). You can see the holes
that make ridges that hold the tampon tubes in place until a finger pushes
the the end. Tampax, above, has the same holes.
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One of the Tampax people apparently investigated the 'pon, below,
and left it in the box.
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Below: These stapled bundles of paper snuggled
in the box next to the tampons (each about 3.5 x 2.1", about 9 x 5
cm). Note what looks like "NO" and "NI" in pencil and
ink. The brown paper doesn't match any part of the box, tampons or instructions
but the white paper might be the same as the instructions
on the next page. Are they paper samples left by the
developers? Someone made a similar mark on the instructions
on the next page.
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Next | Box - tampons - instructions - See the Turkish Tampex & TamPak
Tampax imitations, 1973 - Tampax
tampon from the early 1930s - Main Tampax patent - Ad from 1936
- World War II Tampax sign - Japanese
tampon with finger cots
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