Earlier Kotex tampons: Fibs (started 1930s) and Nunap (early 1930s).
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Kotex Comfortube menstrual tampons, 1967, U.S.A.
Tampon

See the main discussion.

Note that the flowers also appear on the paper encasing the tampon.

See the embossed Wix tampon box, 1930s-1940s.

 
The tampon is 5" (c. 12 cm) long. The applicator seems to be a coated cardboard.
The plug (absorbing part) measures 1.75" x 0.5" and the string, 4", which seems short. Look at the break in the tube, at right. It apparently holds the two tubes together by pushing the little flap into the break in the second tube. Seems crude.
Boy, was it hard pushing the tampon out! I hope that was just the effect of age; I'd pity the woman trying to get the thing to "fire."

See the box and main page. Earlier Kotex tampons: Fibs (started 1930s) and Nunap (early 1930s).

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