Crayola Product Line

Crayola No. 8, 1905 – Current

This is a collection of the No. 8 boxes with special commemorative productions made.

	BS0298 Start Date: Late 40s End Date: Late 40s Country: USA Rareness: 10 Est. Value (Mint): $150 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was clearly a special promotional box made for the Flying Star factory location within Binney & Smith. There is only paper evidence that this box ever existed; it was found as a photocopy of a set of older boxes and stored in some old records at the Smithsonian. There is nothing known about this box other than the approximate year it would have been produced given the design of the time. No documentation has identified where the Flying Star factory was.
	BS0047 Start Date: 1952 End Date: 1952 Country: USA Rareness: 8 Est. Value (Mint): $100 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is a special box of the No 8 produced to commemorate the opening of their Winfield Kansas plant on October 8, 1952. This is the back of the box. There are only 3 or 4 of these boxes known to still exist.
	BS0048 Start Date: 1992 End Date: 1992 Country: USA Rareness: 6 Est. Value (Mint): $30 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is a special box of the No 8 produced to acknowledge the closing of the Winfield Kansas plant after 40 years in 1992. It was designed to look almost exactly like the original commemorative box from 1952. This box isn’t nearly as obscure as the original having been produced much later but still doesn’t show up very often as few were produced and they were given to employees of the plant.
	BS1178 Start Date: 1982 End Date: 1982 Country: USA Rareness: 9 Est. Value (Mint): $10 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is simply a normal No 8 box but with an internal Binney & Smith sticker placed on the front identifying a Renewable Resource project from 11/1/82. This box came pictured as a group of private held boxes from a former executive. The boxes were never offered for sale so while this box does exist, it isn’t in the collector community.
	BS0734 Start Date: 1990 End Date: 1990 Country: USA Rareness: 4 Est. Value (Mint): $7 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is simply a normal No 8 box but has a wrap around strip promoting adding 8 new colors to their color catalog after having retired 8 older ones. It is a bit harder to find these as I am sure the band was easily broken or lost but for some reason they show up more often than the blue band one for the 8 colors to be retired.
	BS0263 Start Date: 1990 End Date: 1990 Country: USA Rareness: 5 Est. Value (Mint): $10 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is simply a normal No 8 box but has a wrap around strip promoting their move to retire 8 colors from their color catalog. It is a bit harder to find these as I am sure the band was easily broken or lost.
	BS0141 Start Date: 1988 End Date: 1988 Country: USA Rareness: 4 Est. Value (Mint): $5 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is a commemorative box for Ford Motor co. Ford did several commemorative boxes over the years. This was their first one.
	BS1112 Start Date: 1990 End Date: 1990 Country: USA Rareness: 9 Est. Value (Mint): $10 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is simply a normal No 8 box but with an internal Binney & Smith sticker placed on the front identifying this box as an assortment of multicultural colors with black and white for blending. I guess technically this could be considered the first multicultural box but I thought I’d feature it here also since it is just a normal No 8 box.
	BS0051 Start Date: 1991 End Date: 1991 Country: USA Rareness: 2 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was a commemorative box made to look like the older design generation of No 8s. It contained retired colors.
	BS0050 Start Date: 1993 End Date: 1993 Country: USA Rareness: 2 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was a commemorative tin made to look like the older design generation of No 8s. It was part of the 100^th anniversary celebration.
	BS0487 Start Date: 1997 End Date: 1997 Country: USA Rareness: 7 Est. Value (Mint): $10 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was a sample box given out at McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. It contained two Color Mix Up, two Color ‘N Smell, and two Pearl Brite. It was a promotional effort to introduce some of the new special effect brands Crayola had developed.
	BS1244 Start Date: 2006 End Date: 2006 Country: USA Rareness: 4 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was a special Wal-Mart exclusive box containing only blue crayons..
	BS0481 Start Date: 1997 End Date: 1997 Country: USA Rareness: 5 Est. Value (Mint): $7 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This is a commemorative box for Ford Motor co. Ford did several commemorative boxes over the years. This was their second one. For whatever reason, this one is more difficult to find than the earlier version.
	BS0765 Start Date: 2004 End Date: 2004 Country: USA Rareness: 3 Est. Value (Mint): $5 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was a special box sold only in Target stores and featured a custom Target Red crayon in place of the normal red one.
	BS0253 Start Date: 2002 End Date: 2002 Country: USA Rareness: 4 Est. Value (Mint): $10 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was a special box sold only in the Baltimore, MD area and contained specially named crayons for locally famous places and things.
	BS0269 Start Date: 2002 End Date: 2002 Country: USA Rareness: 6 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This was a special box sold only in the Washington DC area and contained specially named crayons for locally famous places and things.
	BS1298 Start Date: 2006End Date: 2006 Country: USA Rareness: 8 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This wasa commemorative produced exclusively for GE. Very difficult to obtain.