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Coltautos.com Gun of the Month - May 2013
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Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket .25 ACP serial number 291981 - This example has two aftermarket inscriptions. The first is on the forward left side of the frame and reads "Dr. E.C. HAAS." over "10-18-34" (pictured below).
Colt 1908 Vest Pocket .25 ACP was one of 10 pistols shipped to Schmelzer Arms Company, Kansas City, Missouri on May 6, 1921. Dr. Earle Cleveland Haas was the inventor of the tampon in 1931. He attempted to get people interested (including Johnson & Johnson) in his invention and eventually sold his patent and trademark to a Denver businesswoman on October 16, 1933 for $35,000. The date on the gun is October 18, 1934, one year and two days after the sale. From Wikipedia: Earle Haas, D.O., born in 1888, was an osteopathic physician and inventor of the tampon with an applicator, marketed as "Tampax". He graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy in 1918 and spent 10 years in Colorado as a country general practitioner, then went to Denver in 1928. Inventions: He invented a flexible ring for a contraceptive diaphragm (and made $50,000 from selling the patent),[1] sold real estate and was president of a company that manufactured antiseptics. Haas wanted to invent something better than the "rags" his wife and other women had to wear, he said, and got the idea for his tampon from a friend in California who used a sponge in the vagina to absorb menstrual flow. So he developed a plug of cotton inserted by means of two cardboard tubes; he did not want the woman to have to touch the cotton. He applied for a patent for the "Catamenal device" on November 19, 1931, and was granted U.S. Patent No. 1,926,900 on September 12, 1933.[2] After failing to get people interested in his invention (including the Johnson & Johnson company), on October 16, 1933 he finally sold the patent and trademark to a Denver businesswoman, Gertrude Tendrich, for $32,000. She started the Tampax company and was its first president. Tenderich was an ambitious German immigrant who made the first Tampax tampons at her home using a sewing machine and Dr. Haas's compression machine. Tampons based on Dr. Haas' design were first sold in the U.S. in 1936. The London Sunday Times newspaper in 1969 named Haas one of the "1000 Makers of the Twentieth Century." After selling the rights to the tampon, he continued with his doctor's practice and various business enterprises. He regretted later selling the rights, but was glad it was successful, and died at 93 in 1981. Up to right before his death he continued to try to improve the tampon.
The second inscription is located on the left radius of the slide and reads: "WHEN YOU OR YOURS AR (sic) ENDANGERED BY ANY PEST
Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket .25 ACP serial number 291981 - inscription on slide.
Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket .25 ACP serial number 291981 - right side. |
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