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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION
AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Sponge
- Australian? - date? - for
contraception and absorbing
menstrual discharge
and
The Hygienic
Sponge (no date, unknown
country)
The donor bought the top sponge
from an Australian dealer,
suggesting that it might be from
that country.
Comparing the images below in my
two computers, both Macintosh, I
noticed that round doesn't always
come out round, and they vary from
computer to computer. But the sponge
cans are round.
I thank the kind donor of
this and other sponges - and
other items!
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Below:
This case was designed for an
Australian giant - no, no, it's
really 1 7/8" in diameter (4.6 cm)
and 1" (2.54 cm) thick. I thought the
design was worth seeing up
close; they're the most
beautiful sponge containers I've
seen. The donor wrote
that this design is not common.
The little black bits and pits
around the edges come from my
attempt to clean up the edges on
the scans.
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Below:
Bottom of the can.
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Below:
No net encases the sponge,
contrary to the others in
MUM. It's possible this is not the
original sponge or that an owner
cut it off, or, like many early tampons,
and some today,
the woman pulled them out with
their fingers.
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Below,
right and left: A frequent
contributor sent these scans of a
sponge can, the second most
beautiful I've seen. Date and
country of origin unknown.
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Anna Health Sponge
(U.S.A., 1940s?) - First
sponge page
Cardboard
American sponge can with sponge.
Orange-design can
with sponge. Black can and
sponge.
The contemporary Sea
Pearls (from the U.S.A.) menstrual
sponge
The contemporary Gynotex
(from the Netherlands) menstrual sponge
Main
sponge page
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