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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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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