Rare Vintage Crayola Gold Medal Crayons 24 Ct Box No 242 Binney & Smith FLESH
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:8392981 | Model: Standard Box |
| MPN: No. 242 | Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown |
| Brand: Crayola |
Awesome find here. Crayola crayons Circa 1956 - 1962 with the infamous FLESH crayon in UNUSED condition. Box is dated 1956 they 1962. The company name on box is Binney & Smith INC. They stopped using Binney & Smith Co. in 1955. The great crayon is the flesh colored one, it's unused. They renamed the flesh crayon to peach in 1962. So these crayons are some 57 years old at least! Own a piece of history! Shipping $5 in USA - First Class insured mail in USA.
Certain colors... have been renamed for political reasons, like “Flesh.”What color is flesh? According to Welter, it’s the lightly pigmented, roughly universal shade we see on our palms — like the Crayola crayon by that name. For most people, however, flesh refers to skin tone, and the problem with making one beige-y shade the only skin-tone crayon available is obvious. But until the early 1960s, Welter explained, the company hadn’t yet realized how the name could cause consternation. A social researcher noticed children using the shade to draw people, teasing darker-skinned classmates who didn’t match the crayon. Shortly after the researcher wrote a letter to the company in 1962, (after a couple back-and-forth years with the name Pink Beige, for some reason) the Crayola shade became known as Peach.
Certain colors... have been renamed for political reasons, like “Flesh.”What color is flesh? According to Welter, it’s the lightly pigmented, roughly universal shade we see on our palms — like the Crayola crayon by that name. For most people, however, flesh refers to skin tone, and the problem with making one beige-y shade the only skin-tone crayon available is obvious. But until the early 1960s, Welter explained, the company hadn’t yet realized how the name could cause consternation. A social researcher noticed children using the shade to draw people, teasing darker-skinned classmates who didn’t match the crayon. Shortly after the researcher wrote a letter to the company in 1962, (after a couple back-and-forth years with the name Pink Beige, for some reason) the Crayola shade became known as Peach.
