Crayola
Product Line
Crayola No 16 (International)
The
No 16 line was made and sold in several different international locations and
started in different years depending on which location. They are also more difficult to date. Rather than offer up a complete chronology
including unknown boxes, I can only feature what is known and speculate at
possible production dates for the versions since so little is documented and
not all examples have surfaced.
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BS0887 Start
Date: 1994 End
Date: 1996 Country:
AUS Rareness:
8 Est. Value (Mint): $30
Crayons: 16 Colors: 16 What makes this unique: Similar to |
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BS0590 Start
Date: 1972 End
Date: 1976 Country:
CAN Rareness:
6 Est.
Value (Mint): $30 Crayons: 16 Colors: 16 What makes this unique: This has the straight upper/lower brand name text. On this version they incorporated the |
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BS0848 Start
Date: 1974 End
Date: 1978 Country:
CAN Rareness:
9 Est. Value (Mint): $40 Crayons: 16 Colors:
16 What makes this unique: The changes on this version are that the Hexagon reference
changes to a Hexagon logo in the upper right rather than reference on the
flap. They also completely dropped the
logo and simply added a red maple leaf with the Made in |
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BS1213 Start
Date: Unknown End
Date: Unknown Country:
CAN Rareness:
7 Est. Value (Mint): $30 Crayons: 16 Colors:
16 What makes this unique: In this retail version with the tall hanger tab, they
still have the hexagon logo in the upper right but in French and
English. Also, they switched to the
thicker brand name text. This is part
of an era where the designs from |
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BS0716 Start
Date: Unknown End
Date: Unknown Country:
CAN Rareness:
7 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 16 Colors:
16 What makes this unique: Exactly like the hexagon version but without the hexagon
stamp. |
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BS1081 Start
Date: Unknown End
Date: Unknown Country:
CAN Rareness:
2 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors:
8 What makes this unique: The changes on this version are similar to that of the
Hexagon version. They completely
dropped the logo and simply added a red maple leaf with the Made in |
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BS0807 Start
Date: 1987 End
Date: Unknown Country:
CAN Rareness:
7 Est. Value (Mint): $25 Crayons: 8 Colors:
8 What makes this unique: Very tall hanger flap on this version with a unique design
of three colors of crayon markings the last coming from the tip of a purple
crayon. They incorporated a mock trapezoid
window during this era of boxes. They
dropped the Made in |
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BS0630 Start
Date: 1997 End
Date: 1999 Country:
CAN Rareness:
3 Est. Value (Mint): $3 Crayons: 16 Colors:
16 What makes this unique: The company redid their entire packaging in 1997 and
created the familiar rainbow underline below their name. This retail version featured the yellow
hanger tab and started the signature International crayon tips at the
bottom. Each size package contained a
different number of crayons. For the
16 count box there were four. This
image had a registered trademark even.
By this time they had gone back to an actual window instead of a mock. |
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BS0376 Start
Date: 1999 End
Date: 2002 Country:
CAN Rareness:
2 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 16 Colors:
16 What makes this unique: Only a visual change occurred for this design generation. On this retail version, the hanger switched from yellow to green |
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BS1057 Start
Date: 2003 End
Date: Current Country: CAN Rareness:
1 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 16 Colors:
16 What makes this unique: In 2003 Binney & Smith redesigned their entire line. They took advantage of the window’s shape of a smile and enhanced that to actually look like a smile. For this retail box version they used a mock window. The brand name was affixed above the window and used a different font style. They kept the trademark three crayons but made them slightly longer and dropped the trademark symbol. The crayons below were changed slightly two with the blue and red switching places and have a more 3 dimensional feel. |
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BS1141 Start
Date: 1984 End
Date: 1988 Country:
EUR Rareness:
8 Est. Value (Mint): $8
Crayons: 16 Colors: 16 What makes this unique: The trapezoid is on this one. This is a retail version and had the unique
crown opening to hang it with on the hanger tab. The wavy Binney & Smith logo is a
lighter green color. |
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BS0650 Start
Date: 1997 End
Date: 2004 Country:
EUR Rareness:
2 Est. Value (Mint): $2
Crayons: 16 Colors: 16 What makes this unique: When Binney & Smith redesigned their line with their
familiar rainbow underline logo for their brand name they did it on all
international lines too. |
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photo, refer to the No
8 version |
Start Date: 2005 End Date: Current Country:
EUR Rareness: 1
Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 16 Colors:
16 What makes this unique: .This version features their smile logo with the Crayola
name above it. This has the three
crayons and they also added an upside down crayon tip on the flap on the left
side and changed the color of the 16 on the flap to white. |
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BS1139 Start
Date: 1973 End
Date: 1976 Country:
MEX Rareness:
10 Est. Value (Mint): $20
Crayons: 16 Colors: 16 What makes this unique: The Mexican version of the No 16 is easily recognized with the Spanish “Crayones”. This is an earlier version from the 1970s with the Straight upper/lower case brand name. |
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BS1113 Start
Date: 1997 End
Date: 1999 Country:
MEX Rareness:
10 Est. Value (Mint): $15
Crayons: 16 Colors: 16 What makes this unique: The Mexican version of the No 8 has the yellow hanger tab
and the rainbow underline brand name design. |
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BS1056 Start
Date: 1999 End
Date: 2002 Country:
MEX Rareness:
2 Est. Value (Mint): $5
Crayons: 16 Colors: 16 What makes this unique: The Mexican version of the No 16 has the greeh hanger tab
and the rainbow underline brand name design.
Box text is in Spanish. |
