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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Tiffany bowl celebrating the founding of the
main Tampax tampon company, 1986, U.S.A.
The company that celebrated its founding with this bowl was not the
first Tampax company - nor the last.
Dr. Earl Haas received his patent dated
1933 for his tampon with an insertion device and sold the rights to it the
same year to Gertrude Tenderich, a German immigrant (see a Tampax
from about this time), who in turn sold it to a group of investors when
she ran out of money, in 1936. That group became Tambrands, whose anniversary
this bowl celebrates. In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble bought Tambrands,
which led to this museum's receiving about 1000 items from the company's
archives - a fabulous gift!
A researcher and retired teacher who has donated many items and much
information to this museum generously bought and donated the bowl to MUM.
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Below: The bowl measures 7.5" by 1.5" deep (about 19 x 3 cm).
Below that lies the Tiffany ID.
1936 refers to Tambrands, not to the original Tampax company.
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