All tampon on this site
Ads for the Kotex stick tampon
(U.S.A., 1970s) - a Japanese stick tampon from
the 1970s.
Rely tampon - Meds tampon
(Modess)
 
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Two dealers' cartons of Wix menstrual tampons,
1930s-1940s?, U.S.A.
Larger carton
Wix was one of the first American commercial tampons,
appearing in the early 1930s. Tampax bought the
company (and Holly-Pax) later in the decade
but it still produced tampons. Like many early tampons, Wix had no
insertion device, something that Tampax developed and patented.
Dealers received these cartons; they sold
the enclosed boxes of tampons and gave away the brochures. Early on, some
interesting saleswomen inducted potential customers
into the mysteries of tampons with this chart.
Women could buy Wix in the 1934 Sears, Roebuck catalog (here),
two years before Tampax came on the broad market.
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Below: Front of the carton, which held
one dozen boxes of 12 tampons each (embossed version, at top).
It measures 9 x 6 x 3" (23.5 x 15.3 x 7.5 cm).
The bottom is blank with just the color of
the cardboard. The boxes of tampons inside
look like this embossed version (at top) and the brochures
inside are here.
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Below: The two long sides.
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Below: The ends are identical.
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