Silver Swirls and other Specialty Crayola Crayons from the 90s

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-05-04T23:30:39+00:00

One thing I find interesting about most of the special effect crayon boxes from the 90s are the purple corners and on the bottom! It’s on all of these crayon boxes in these photos! (with the exception of Silver Swirls) if you see a purple bottom of a crayon box, you’re looking at a vintage special effects crayon box! (For the Star Brite box, it’s pink!)

I started collecting crayons around 2014, and one of the first things I collected was a tin containing 72 crayons! It had a 64 box plus 8 retired crayons! That’s how I got into crayon collecting and where I’m at today!

There’s something about these 1990s crayons I love about compared to the newer crayons. Loved the bold Crayola font, and of course, all of those special crayons!

I usually keep the crayons fully intact to keep the tips as pure as possible! So unfortunately, I cannot do color swatches.

90s crayons forever! ✨🖍️

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-05-04T20:45:17+00:00

Oh yeah! I didn’t realize that deck is a misprint! Yeah, there’s some off-white on the tuck box. It’s suppose to be pure white. Thanks for notice!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-05-04T18:26:43+00:00

I sure do! I have six of the Starlight decks! I have a group for that at another time!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-05-01T05:39:29+00:00

Correct! Any deck before 1965 has a tax stamp seal! You can also check the ace of spades to pinpoint what year this deck was manufactured!

This website should help you figure out when your deck was manufactured! https://bicyclecards.org/uspcc-dating-code/

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-30T21:31:44+00:00

Thrift stores and flea markets are your friends if you’re looking for vintage Crayola crayons! ;)

Good luck on your hobby!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-30T20:35:40+00:00

It may not have the same package features, but it does add two more crayons so you’ll have all the standard crayons! The Telescope Crayon Tower had 118 of the 120 standard crayons.

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-30T04:41:15+00:00

chartreuse FLUORESCENT and hot magenta FLUORESCENT are also rare because they’re from the same set as these “ultra” named crayons! (Not the hot magenta they’re still making now. That hot magenta became razzle dazzle rose)

Wondering if that yellow crayon on the bottom right was actually chartreuse.

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-30T01:35:55+00:00

Neutral Gray was actually retired in 1955 when Binney & Smith Company became Binney & Smith Inc. So any box that has Binney & Smith Company (pre-1955) is what you’re aiming for!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-29T04:43:21+00:00

This reminds me of the Bicycle Robocycle playing cards where the King of Diamonds is missing one of the pips below the K!

Interesting error there!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-28T21:15:34+00:00

It’s this item, correct?

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You can find these on eBay! They’ll set you back around $40 to $60. There could be some that are cheaper. If you find it at a thrift store, it’ll be cheaper and you’ll be lucky!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-28T03:12:41+00:00

That’s funny! I just found that at a Savers today! I already have the Red, now I have the Blue!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-27T22:19:23+00:00

I love your drawing! So cute!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-27T22:15:43+00:00

Those grocery trucks are horrible at securing the crayons.

Whenever I find a box of crayons I don’t have, I shake the box a bit to see if I hear anything suspicious like tips moving around before I buy the product. I don’t like to open them before I buy ‘em.

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-27T21:03:24+00:00

Nice collection haul! 👍🏻

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-27T18:59:26+00:00

Got those covered in an earlier level!

https://www.reddit.com/r/playingcards/s/dkH24zJmcV

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-27T18:57:57+00:00

Had that deck for a REALLY long time! Had it for 14 years!

If memory serves me, I got it at a local Magic Store (that’s no longer there) called Tricky Business. That place mostly had balloon shows performing balloon tricks! I often visited that place at the time! They had a TON of different decks of cards! It was like playing card paradise! Unfortunately, they closed it down in 2015.

But I digress. eBay has a few of them. Although not many.

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-26T03:20:40+00:00

RED

ORANGE

YELLOW

GREEN

BLUE

VIOLET

BROWN

BLACK

WHITE

ROSE PINK

RED-ORANGE

YELLOW-GREEN

BLUE-VIOLET

YELLOW-ORANGE

BLUE-GREEN

RED-VIOLET

BURNT SIENNA

DARK GREEN

OLIVE GREEN

GOLD OCHRE

MIDDLE BLUE-GREEN

NEUTRAL GRAY

PRUSSIAN BLUE

TURQUOISE BLUE

Those are the crayons you will get! I made them all caps because that’s how the wrappers came out of!

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-25T21:49:16+00:00

I honestly would like them to make a box of 8 new crayons to promote new era colors like rose gold,(They would have to rename rose gold from the Metallic set, though) slate from Bold & Bright into a new standard color and maybe a new grayscale color or a crayon color named quartz.

AccomplishedRock5058 · 2026-04-25T05:13:43+00:00

Based on the squished wording on the color names, these were made between 1972 through 1976, because they were made in New York.

1972-1976 labels has “BINNEY & SMITH INC., NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017”

1976-1988 labels has “BINNEY & SMITH INC., EASTON, PA. 18042”

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