Crayola Product Line

Crayola No. 8 (International)

The No 8 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.

Asia boxes

Canada boxes

Europe boxes

Mexico boxes

Asia

BS1035 Start Date: Unknown End Date: Unknown Country: ASIA Rareness: 7 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: Probably from the late 1980s or early 1990s based on the thick font style on the product name. Version has Tip holding a crayon and some foreign text on it.

Canada

	BS0485 Start Date: 1936 End Date: Unknown Country: CAN Rareness: 8 Est. Value (Mint): $40 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: The design is similar to the 1934 USA version and this is clearly the first Canadian Crayola box made in Canada. At this time they only subcontracted with Canada Crayon Co. and later they would buy them out. The name logo much has the larger ‘C’ and ‘A’. The unique part of this design is the cyclone like lettering of ‘School Crayons’. Canadian boxes are easily distinguished in the spelling of “color” vs “colour”. This first example is rare given there are only two known.
	BS0042 Start Date: 1952 End Date: 1955 Country: CAN Rareness: 6 Est. Value (Mint): $25 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This particular design marks the last of the major designs to feature the actual gold medal on the box. None of the registered trademark logos are on this version. It also still references Canada Crayon Co.
	BS1242 Start Date: 1955 End Date: Unknown Country: CAN Rareness: 8 Est. Value (Mint): $30 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: This design is almost a hybrid design from that of the USA versions. It has much more of the arching text they used in their initial oval logo designs and uniquely added the word crayons arched while at the same time dropping the “Gold Medal” reference. They also added the two registered trademark logos; one after the ‘L’ in the name and one below the gold medal. It also still references Canada Crayon but also now acknowledges ‘Binney & Smith Inc.’
	BS1195 Start Date: 1972 End Date: 1976 Country: CAN Rareness: 9 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: They changed a number of things with this. First, they dropped the ‘No.” on the flap. Second, they stopped arching the lettering and went from an all upper case name to Upper/Lower case. They dropped the redundant ‘8’ from the center. On this version they incorporated the USA logo but with the Canada Crayon Co name in it..
	BS0588 Start Date: 1972 End Date: 1974 Country: CAN Rareness: 6 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: They put out a Hexagon version of the line. This particular version of it includes the reference on the flap under the 8. It also marks the simplification of the company logo; dropping the Lindsay, Ontario reference.
	BS0788 Start Date: 1974 End Date: 1978 Country: CAN Rareness: 9 Est. Value (Mint): $30 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 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 Canada text. They also added the CP certification logo in the lower left and dropped the Non-Toxic to the bottom.
	BS0484 Start Date: 1974 End Date: 1978 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 Canada text. They also added the CP certification logo in the lower left and dropped the Non-Toxic to the bottom.
	BS0408 Start Date: 1987 End Date: Unknown Country: CAN Rareness: 6 Est. Value (Mint): $8 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 blue crayon. They incorporated a mock trapezoid window during this era of boxes. They dropped the Made in Canada reference and simply kept the red maple leaf. They added the registered trademark logo to one of the chevrons by this time. This also has a green Tip character on it. Tip was commonly found on international boxes more so than on USA ones. By this time they were also using the thicker font for the brand name.
	BS0264 Start Date: 1997 End Date: 1999 Country: CAN Rareness: 3 Est. Value (Mint): $3 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 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 8 count box there were three. This image had a registered trademark even. By this time they had gone back to an actual window instead of a mock.
	BS0394 Start Date: 1999 End Date: 2002 Country: CAN Rareness: 2 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: Only a visual change occurred for this design generation. On this retail version, the hanger switched from yellow to green
	BS0967 Start Date: 2003 End Date: Current Country: CAN Rareness: 1 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 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.

Europe

	BS0101 Start Date: Unknown End Date: Unknown Country: EUR Rareness: 9 Est. Value (Mint): $30 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: Similar to USA versions but without the logo on the front. This is most likely the German version with the German text for “crayons” on it even though much of the text is in English.
	BS1115 Start Date: Unknown End Date: Unknown Country: EUR Rareness: 10 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: Similar to USA versions in the late 70s but they kept this logo much longer in Europe. The trapezoid window positioned right up to the top is a design technique used in the late 70s also. No examples have surfaced yet.
	BS0548 Start Date: 1984 End Date: 1988 Country: EUR Rareness: 5 Est. Value (Mint): $8 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: By this time they had flipped the trapezoid window vertically and dropped it down some. 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 still there but a lighter green color.
	BS1208 Start Date: 1989 End Date: 1990 Country: EUR Rareness: 5 Est. Value (Mint): $5 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: Only real change on this version is the switch of color on the 8 from red to green.
	BS0601 Start Date: 1997 End Date: 2004 Country: EUR Rareness: 2 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 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.
	BS1207 Start Date: 2005 End Date: Current Country: EUR Rareness: 1 Est. Value (Mint): $2 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 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 8 on the flap to white.

Mexico

	BS1113 Start Date: 1973 End Date: 1976 Country: MEX Rareness: 10 Est. Value (Mint): $20 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: The Mexican version of the No 8 is easily recognized with the Spanish “Crayones”. This is an earlier version from the 1970s with the Straight upper/lower case brand name.
	BS1113 Start Date: 1997 End Date: 1999 Country: MEX Rareness: 10 Est. Value (Mint): $15 Crayons: 8 Colors: 8 What makes this unique: The Mexican version of the No 8 has the yellow hanger tab and the rainbow underline brand name design.