Ancient Web: CrayonCollecting turned Crayola boxes into a

Ed Welter tracked color names, wrappers, box variants, IDs, date ranges, and rarity down to tiny packaging changes. Later collector sites still reuse his classifications because somebody documented the differences before the objects vanished. A box of crayons stops looking ordinary when its wrapper has a research trail.

Original color-history page: http://www.crayoncollecting.com/ccolor36.htm

Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-crayoncollecting-turned-crayola-boxes-into-a-reference-system/

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