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Five boxed sets of crayons manufactured by the Standard Crayon Manufacturing Company

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Description: Five sets of boxed colored crayons manufactured by the Standard Crayon Mfg. Co., Danvers, Massachusetts, circa 1914. Set 10: Crayel, No. 184. (16 wax crayons in a flip-top box) Set 11: Crest Light Artists Crayon. (crayon pieces in a box with a lid) "Mabel Spofford, 8 Cherry Street, On hand 1914" written in ms., in pencil, on lid. Set 12: Crest Light Artist's Crayons, No. 814 (8 wax crayons in a slipcase box) Set 13: The Artco Pastel, No. 8 (8 wax crayons in a box with lid). Set 14: The Murillo Art Crayons, with book for coloring (8 wax crayons in box with lid). Title supplied by cataloger.
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Date: circa 1914
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Five sets of boxed colored crayons manufactured by the Prang Company

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Five sets of boxed colored crayons manufactured by the Prang Company, New York, Chicago, and Dallas. All are housed in brown and white paperboard boxes. Set 5: Prang Pastellex, No. 7 (8 wax crayons) Set 6: Prang Crayonex, No. 4 (16 wax crayons) Set 7: Prang Crayonex, No. 3 (8 wax crayons) Set 8: The Prang Art Education Crayons, Set No. 2 (8 wax crayons) Set 9: Prang Art Education Crayons, No. 2 (8 wax crayons) "M.S." is written in ms., in pencil, on Set No. 7.

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Four boxed sets of crayons manufactured by Binney & Smith Company

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Four boxed sets of colored crayons, each manufactured by Binney & Smith Co., New York, circa 1905-1920. Set 10: Spectra Pastel Crayon, No. 15 (6 chalk crayons) Set 11: 'Boston' Pressed Crayon, No. 2 (8 wax crayons) Set 12: 'Reubens' Crayola (18 wax crayons) Set 13: Crayola School Crayons, No. 8 (8 wax crayons) Each of the boxes vary in color, design and size. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Six boxed sets of crayons manufactured by The American Crayon Company

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Six sets of boxed color crayons, all manufactured by The American Crayon Co., Sandusky, Ohio and New York, circa 1935. Set 1: Prang Pastello 8 Set 2: "Pastello" No. 5A Five Colors Set 3: Pastello No. 41 Set 4: Painting Crayons, No. 341 (water color crayons) Set 5: American: The 'Old Faithful' Crayons, 41 Set 6: American: The 'Old faithful' Crayons, 45 Title supplied by cataloger.

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Tony Sarg's Circus Crayons

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One boxed set of colored crayons entitled Tony Sarg's Circus Crayons, manufactured by the TransoGram Company, Inc., New York, ca. 1920. This set consists of 12 large wax crayons set within a cardboard cutout holder in the shape of a circus hippopotamus. The hippo is wearing a circus blanket upon which the title and the manufacturer's names are printed. The crayon box is between the two sides of the hippopotamus, creating a 3-dimensional crayon holder. There is no date of manufacture, and there is no top lid for the crayon box. The dimensions given are for the cardboard hippo, minus the height of the crayons.

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The Manual Arts Crayon, No. 2

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One boxed set of colored crayons entitled The Manual Arts Crayon, No. 2, manufactured by The Milton Bradley Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1930. The sliding box contains 8 colored, wax crayons. The box is gray with blue printing.

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Garrett’s Pressed Crayons, No. 8P

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One boxed set of colored crayons entitled Garrett's Pressed Crayons, No. 8P, manufactured by the Brodhead-Garrett Co., Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1930. The brown and yellow-colored box contains 8 colored wax crayons.

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