Vintage condom tin
Three Merry Widows brand condom tin manufactured between 1920 and 1940. The tin is one of approximately 70 identical containers found buried in a yard off of West Seventh Street in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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April 24th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Hmm, sounds like there were some extremely merry widows in St. Paul!
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April 24th, 2012 at 10:32 am
I wonder if there is any packaging/marketing materials that have images of Agnes, Mabel and Beckie…
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April 24th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
My coworkers and I are wondering if perhaps it was the site of a brothel. Did they find anything of the lacy variety as well?
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Lizzie Ehrenhalt reply on April 24th, 2012:
Hi, Hanna. I’d recommend reading an earlier post about the tin that discusses that very idea:
The donor, having found so many of these items near her house, naturally wondered if her neighborhood once hosted a bordello. The location – half-way between downtown St. Paul and Fort Snelling – certainly would have been convenient. Unfortunately, a search through the Society’s library was inconclusive.
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Perry reply on April 24th, 2012:
It looks like that link is broken! I figured it out – rubber cement! Wow!
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