See the Turkish Tampex & TamPak tampons, 1973
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Sanpax(d?) menstrual tampons, Switzerland? Israel? 1969-1970
Instructions

Main discussion.

Tambrands kindly donated the box as part of a large gift from its archives.

Below: One side of the enclosed paper instructions, which folds into three pages.
"Sanpax" lacks the overprinted D found on the box.
The center page, below, is the page the viewer first sees when pulling the folder from the box - except for the calendar, which serves as the back page.
Look at the marks (in pencil?) in the lower left corner. I wonder if it's related to the marks on the paper bundles. Maybe both served in the development process.
Can anybody translate the Hebrew?
 
Below: The other side of the folder.
 
 
Below: The comparable drawing from the Primella instruction sheet of the year before.
I flipped it so you can compare it easier. Below it, the Primella tampon drawing.
So, what does this prove? ONLY, ladies, that the worldwide socio-economic conspiracy -
um, wait a second, that's my other Web site.
Well, it might indicate that the same
(unknown or does it say in Hebrew?) company made both. Was it Tampax?

 

End | 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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