Other dispensers:
Kotex (1920s-1930s)
(1960s?)
- Modess (1960s?)
- Kotex dispenser offer
(flyer, 1968)
The museum has many dispensers not on this site.
See more
Tampax items: American ad from August 1965 - nudity in
an ad: May 1992 (United
Kingdom) - a sign
advertising Tampax during World War II - the
original patent
- an instruction
sheet from the 1930s
See a Modess True or
False? ad in The American Girl magazine,
January 1947, and actress Carol
Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter"
booklet ad (1955) - Modess
. . . . because ads (many dates)
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The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
Menstrual tampon
dispenser (tampong skåpet, or tampon
cabinet)
for the home, made
of beechwood (Sweden, contemporary)
Swedish design rears its beautiful
head in this beech dispenser meant for
your house, displaying objects
concealed by most people. But these
are Swedes, who designed a panty
pad for thongs and showed a woman wearing a
menstrual-pad belt in an ad.
One of the designers, Maria Kreutz,
kindly gave this example to the
museum.
DesignTorget in Stockholm sells it,
and if this museum had a gift shop, I
think she could sell thousands here. Read below to order
it from Ms. Kreutz.
Note that only
tampons without applicators
will fit the 2 1/8" (5.3 cm) wide
space and they must be smaller than
5/8" (1.5 cm) in diameter to pass
through the hole. But what
self-respecting Swede would use
tampons with applicators? And I
think only Americans who used
applicatorless tampons would display
one.
I confess the tampon-shape "windows"
also look like sperm to me - but
that's my clouded, narrow male mind
for you!
There is nothing attached for
mounting the box, but that could be
done with Velcro. The back, or wall
side, is bare wood and smells good,
hard to effect with plastic or metal.
Order it from Maria Kreutz! (As of
2000)
Maria Kreutz,
Västra Rönneholmsvägen 50C, S-21741
Malmo, Sweden or e-mail her:
mariakreutz@hotmail.com
The price
for the painted ones (red or white at
the moment) is $49
or £33.
They are also available unpainted for $45 or £30
(the most popular, actually).
It costs about $9
or £6 to send it by mail.
The delivery
time will be approximately one week.
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The dispenser
(skåpet
is cabinet
in Swedish)
15 11/16" high, 2 13/16" wide,
1 1/16" thick (ca. 39.75, 7.2, 2.6 cm)
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Smaller
picture, below, to fit your
screen
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Load the tampons from the top.
The available space is 2 1/8" (5.3
cm) wide.
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Push the tampon out with your finger
through the hole on either side;
gravity drops the next tampon into
firing position. That's your MUM's
finger, by the way. (No, no, at left!)
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A tampon peeking out one of
the two side holes (each 5/8"
- 1.5 cm - in diameter), ready
to meet its fate.
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The package label,
below.  |
The label reads,
tampon cabinet
in beech (-wood)
design
pernilla giorgi
maria kreutz
[the latter sent this museum the
dispenser]
Gee, the red
period - I wonder what that
is.
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Other dispensers:
Kotex (1920s-1930s)
(1960s?)
- Modess (1960s?)
- Kotex dispenser offer
(flyer, 1968)
The museum has many dispensers not on this site.
© 2000 Harry Finley. It
is illegal to reproduce or distribute work on
this Web site in any manner or
medium without written permission of the
author. Please report suspected violations to
hfinley@mum.org
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