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Just who is Crayola's Tip?
With Crayola changing their large box core products to a new design this year featuring Tip, I thought it was time to ponder just who this character is and when he started.Tip is the Crayola...
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The Unusual Western Crayola Crayon Container
In the early 1960s Crayola put out a very unusual crayon item. It was their "No 82" container which was shaped and designed as a holster and had a reusable plastic pouch to get the crayons out of.This...
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Crayola's Other Crayon Products
We all just think of "Crayola" now as the company and the brand. While the Crayola brand of crayons have been around since 1903 and dominated the market since the 1920s, it is sometimes confusing that...
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Crayola is Retiring another color on National Crayon Day 2017
In March 2017 Crayola has their consumers in a stir once again as their announcement to retire one of their colors from the No 24 box. Now, whether they have said for the first time in history or...
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Dandelion Retires And A New Blue Color Is About To Be Named
Now that Crayola has formally announced the retirement of Dandelion, much to ire of die-hard color customers, they are in full swing promoting the naming of their new blue crayon that will replace...
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100 Years of Colour in the UK
This box came out in Europe last year. I'll bet no collector ever saw it either. It celebrates the 100th year Crayola has been in Europe Crayola did a Crayola Bus Tour that stopped at various...
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Crayola Name the New Blue Contest
Well, the naming of the new blue color for Crayola's replacement from the retiring Dandelion is one step closer. The general naming ended early June and now people are voting on the five final color...
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Once upon a time another crayon company stole Crayola's look and feel
It doesn't matter how advanced your collection gets, there is always something out there that you didn't know about and have never seen. Case in point, even though my collection had over 60,000...
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Lot of New Boxes from Crayola thanks to the Retirement and Introduction of...
Well, with all the frenzy around 2017's announcement of the retirement of the color Dandelion and then the contest to name the new blue color and then the announcement of the new color Bluetiful and...
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The French Crayola Coloring Books Complete with Crayolas
Crayola is a global company. For those of you that reside and collect in the United States, there is a lot going on internationally that you may not be aware of. Case in point, over 2016 and 2017 the...
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Crayola's New Travel Packs for 2018
In 2018 Crayola continued their use of licensed characters and put out a set of travel pack containers. There are currently 5 that I know of. I don't know if there will be more or this is it. As...
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The Real Tale of the Color "Flesh"
Strange, but I thought I had told this tale in it's completion but going through my blog posts, articles and documentation on my website, apparently I never did completely do so. So here goes...The...
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The Original Mock-Up Prototype Box for the Crayola No 72 line from 1957/58
One of the most interesting Crayola boxes from my collection was this prototype mock-up submitted for the initial box that would become the No 72 line. This was in 1957/58 and at a time when the...
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No these are not really Crayola crayons!
When a brand gets big enough, you can bet somebody, somewhere will take advantage of that without the authority to do so.Case in point, Crayola is such a global name in the world of crayons that they...
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A Conversation with the Binney Family
One of the pleasures of doing my website and crayon blog are the interesting people I get to interact with online. I was just recently contacted by Kristin, a great-great granddaughter of none other...
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Crayola Expands to Embrace Color Inclusiveness with their new "Colors of the...
Crayola is set to launch their newly formulated "Colors of the World" crayon box to address the myriad of human skin colors.The new box contains 32 specially formulated colors. 24 of those colors were...
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An Amazing Life Story Behind the Creator of the Scirbbles Crayon Box
Research is so interesting. Consider this crayon box:You could have this box as part of your crayon collection and not even think twice about the back story. But in this case, it has a very...
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Crayola's Special Effect Crayons
As 2020 rolled into the back-to-school season, while we weren't even sure what that meant while Covid was still around, Crayola moved forward with their roll out. They introduced two brand new Special...
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A Look at Some Surprisingly Rarer and Valuable Crayola Crayon Boxes
If you collect Crayola containers or even if you just happened to have acquired one from somewhere and are wondering if it is common or something really special, it can be difficult to know from just...
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Gluten Free Crayons?
Whew...I was worried there for a moment. But, yes, they are GLUTEN-FREE! 😂
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Craft House did a lot of Hot Wheels crayons
Collectors are very detailed people. In collecting, the small details do matter. That's why for Crayola collectors, I've documented close to 3,000 different crayon containers from them so far.While...
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Collecting Vintage Pencil Boxes - the hidden crayon collectible
I try and document all containers containing crayons. Sometimes those aren't so obvious as just an ordinary box of crayons. For example, Art Sets frequently had crayon in them. So did pencil boxes...
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The Rosen family reunited with the merger of RoseArt and Cra-Z-Art under...
On January 28, 2021, LaRose Industries LLC announced that they had acquired a portion of business from Mattel. Under the AST (arts, crafts, stationery) business under Mattel included their family...
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Crayola No 55, the forgotten small box from 1903
Back in 1903, at the very beginning of the Crayola crayon and brand, Binney & Smith (now renamed to Crayola) produced a wide variety of crayon products to offer to consumers.One of those boxes was...
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My collecting friend John Kropf has written a great book on the history of the American Crayon Company out of Sandusky, OH. As there are so few books on the crayon industry, if you are a collector or...
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