Some tampon curiosities: L & F [Lehn & Fink] Improved Tampons (U.S.A., 1930s-1940s?) Box, instructions, some tampons. From the company that made Lysol. - Medical tampons mentioned in newspapers, U.S.A., 1894-1921 - o.b. folder, Germany, early 1950s (tells what o.b. means!)
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St Michael super menstrual tampons, 1972 (Marks & Spencer, U.K.)
compared with
Tampax super, 1972
The tampons

Introduction


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I thank the former Tambrands, once maker of Tampax tampons, for donating both boxes!
Below: The wrapped St Michael super, 1972
Below: St Michael, unveiled, The string is coiled within the cardboard tube.
See other but older tampons with Tampax-like cardboard tubes, Sta-Pacs and Lehn & Fink New Improved [menstrual, contraceptive?] Tampon.
Below: Tampax, super, 1972, showing its cardboard tubes.
   

Below: St Michael, disassembled.
The outer (top) tube measures 2 11/16 x 5/8" (6.9 x 1.5 cm),
the inner (next) 2 13/16 x 9/16" (7.2 x 1.4 cm).
The plug (absorbing cotton end) measures about 2 x 5/8" (about 5.2 x 1.5 cm) and the string is
3 5/8" (about 9 cm) long.
Below: Tampax, disassembled.
The outer (top) tube measures 2 12/16 x 5/8" (7 x 1.5 cm),
the inner (next) 3 x 9/16" (7.5 x 1.4 cm).
The plug (absorbing cotton end) measures about 2 1/2 x 5/8" (about 5.8 x 1.5 cm) and the string is 5" (about 12 cm) long.
Below: The St Michael string enters the 'pon at the side of the end,
not the center, and runs down the outside of the length of the plug (arrow).
There ARE other ways to connect the string to the plug (for example B-ettes, Fibs, Cashay, Lehn & Fink).
Below: And so does the Tampax string.
   
Below: a Tampax employee pulled the St Michael plug (the business end) apart
to examine it then put it back into the box the company sent me.
Below: Grooves, probably for gripping, on the shorter, outer Tampax tube,
which the St Michael lacks.

 

So there are some close similarities but I don't know if this caused Tampax lawyers to raise a fuss.

  
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Some tampon curiosities: L & F [Lehn & Fink] Improved Tampons (U.S.A., 1930s-1940s?) Box, instructions, some tampons. From the company that made Lysol. - Medical tampons mentioned in newspapers, U.S.A., 1894-1921 - o.b. folder, Germany, early 1950s (tells what o.b. means!)

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