I was so happy to pick up the Perma Pressed Gold Medal No. 93 box of crayons on eBay. They are now my oldest box of crayons. I love the history of Crayola even though I do not have many historic boxes yet. The Perma Perssed fine art crayons came out in 1924 after Binney & Smith (the parent company of Crayola) acquired the crayon line of Munsell Color Company. They were high quality crayons at an affordable price. Binney & Smith also incorporated the Munsell color wheel into its product lines. At this time Binney & Smith also had Durel, Cerata, Spectra, Tiny Tops, Crayola, Munsell Crayola, and Munsell Perma crayons. I feel like their line offerings were so diverse at this time because they were so new on the market, there had never been crayons before. The crayon offerings have definitely been fine tuned. Crayola now offers a standard set of crayon brand lines. They may make specialty crayons, but they all fall under the Crayola brand.
*sources: http://munsell.com/color-blog/crayon-color-history-collecting-ed-welter/
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*sources: http://munsell.com/color-blog/crayon-color-history-collecting-ed-welter/
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