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What a great find.

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Pelikan also makes 12- and 24-color pan watercolor sets, in both transparent and opaque (gouache). I much preferred my Pelikan 24 set to either of the little 12-color travel sets from Windsor & Newton and Daler-Rowney.

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Neat find. They do look 50-60s ish.

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I have gone over the various parts for clues.

 

Throughout, the two chicks logo is used, but that is 1937 until 2003.

 

On the inside of the lid, it is in red line art against white. Big and simple with Pel underneath, nicely spaced. The Info insert does not show a logo directly other than Pel. Certainly looks late 50s-60s to me. As does the cute sun design and the typeface on the front of the tin package They may have been a continuation of a succesful package identifier. The illustrations in the fold-out info insert are in a more studied simple style.

 

It does identify that Pelican produced two types of wax crayons: with a slide to facilitate writing skills in children and without the slide (as shown). The slide and a line of other products continue as learning-to-write aids. The crayons may have been the first. The type is a sans-serif, maybe some form of Helvetica. Helvetica was introduced in 1957.

 

I wonder if the Pelikano teacher-developed school pen was ahead of these crayons? That would have been 1960. The Pelikano packaging and advertising appear to me to be after the crayons in style. But the Pelikano was a big-deal introduction while I am sure the crayons were somewhere in the line as a profitable item to be milked. No need to mess with the crayon packaging or graphics ... except maybe the cost of the tin package. Now plastic or blister pack for rack display. Product phase out from tin to plastic was under weigh in the late 60's.

 

However, from my own experience I know that inserts have an identifier for reference for reprinting. The identifier is A - 2 - 70. In some systems (and every company has their own system) the last figure is the date. But I can't see this box of wax crayons having been packaged as late as 1970.

 

The crayons themselves have the two chicks in crayon color reverse out of black. This may have been a printing decision for legibility.

 

To me the package and insert say late 50's-early 60's. Just passing 'cute' and into simple.

 

 

Enough of my (bleep)! Will someone with actual knowledge please step forward?

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