More about
Pursettes:
See the Pursettes booket for teenagers (late
1950s?).
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Plastic box filled with 60
Pursettes tampons (no applicator,
1960s-70s?)
(Campana Corp., Batavia, Illinois, U.S.A.)
history, tampon, women, menstruation,
lubrication
Pursettes extolled its virtues
in many very
readable ads often aimed at
young women.
But its virtues were old ones: a
no-applicator
version (unlike Tampax,
the queen of applicators) that
recalled the earliest
commercial tampons; and
small size since the long tubes
were missing.
But its almost
unique feature was a lubricated
tip that made it easier
to insert - but not for
all. You can see the
lubrication in a photo -
and it's still slippery when wet!
I've seen only one other tampon
with lubrication, an earlier
American one called Dale.
Pursettes started in the 1950s
but failed in the 1970s, actually
a long run compared to some early
American tampons (see all tampons
on this site).
I thank
Tambrands, the former company
that made Tampax, for this
donation from its archives.
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Below:
The plastic box measures 5 1/4 x 3
1/4 x 2 3/4" (13.3 x 8.3 x 7.1
cm).
It's clear on top but black on the
sides and bottom. The blue &
white paper
you see is a loose piece of paper.
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Below:
For connoisseurs of latches, the latch (on
the invisible side at the TOP of
the image above).
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Below:
Odd:
the two pairs of different
plastic hinges. The patent no. for
these hinges is
2570341 (1951), which appears in
almost microscopic letters on the
plastic cover.
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Below:
The same hinges
from the side
of the box. The four
rectangular shapes extending
downward are slightly raised
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