hello there and welcome back to my channel i'm just going to jump straight into today's
video because honestly it's a good one so recently on ebay i purchased two things
the first one being a 100 year old watercolor palette
which you will see in a later video and the second purchase which you're about to see
is an original box of crayola crayons that is over 90 years old
as of yesterday it came in the mail and i absolutely cannot believe that i got
my hands on it now every single time that i make these kind of videos the number one
concern that i get understandably is don't these belong in a museum
why are you using them and honestly that's a completely understandable concern
but as you're about to see these poor crayons man ain't nobody want these poor crayons for example
when you look on ebay you can easily find ultra rare crayon listings that easily go for top dollar
and unbeknownst to me apparently crayon collecting is very serious business
allow me to introduce you to crayoncollecting.com
now i gotta say this website is absolutely nuts the website tells you anything you want to know
about the history of crayola year by year you can actually see what products they produced
what the boxes look like how much they would cost how rare those products
are and most crazy of all how many in current day are still in circulation
so needless to say i spent some time looking around the website looking for my exact crayons
and unbelievably i was able to pin an exact year for my crayons these
crayons which you're about to see are from 1928 making them 92 years old
and according to the website many are known making my poor little crayons
not rare which leads me to how i got these antique crayons for only drum roll please
99 cents with four dollar shipping
so yeah i'm super excited to see what the colors look like how they work
what the box looks like and of course compare them to modern day crayons
uh so yeah with that being said let's get the unboxing started
alrighty here they are i gotta say i am so beyond excited to open these
because you guys know i love history i love art supplies so it's like everything i love
in one package i'm a little concerned with this packaging because when i pulled them out
of the mailbox it kind of sounds like each individual crayon has slid out of the box
so i'm kind of worried that some of these are going to be already broken
which i really don't want that to happen so i don't know what's going on let's see what's
inside now throughout this whole entire video i'm gonna wear gloves because honestly god knows
what's inside of these pigments i'm assuming mostly lead but you never know what's inside
oh i told you they were out of the bag i freaking called it
oh my gosh here they are oh my gosh
okay i need to calm down i'm up here i need to take it down to here but oh my god this is
so exciting i am absolutely fascinated right now by this old crayola logo that is so cool
now the first thing that i'm really impressed with is how not faded any of the cardboard boxes
i mean the background is a little beat up but all of this green writing is perfectly intact
now something really sneaky that crayola used to do it probably would be considered illegal
now if you look closely you can see where it says gold medal and it has like a little gold medal
back in the day when crayola was first invented unrelated to their crayons they actually won an
award for their dust-free chalk and so they actually slapped the gold medal award on
every single product that they had to make it seem like every product that they made
won a gold medal which totally wasn't the case so i thought that was some really sneaky marketing
now originally this came with 16 different crayons but as you guys saw a second ago
most of them are just straight up missing so let's pop this bad boy open and see how many are inside
i'm actually really surprised by how well this box held up over the 100 years
because sometimes i have random crayolas for videos and the modern day box falls apart in like
two seconds so i'm really impressed with the quality of the 100 year old crayons and i gotta
say i'm really lucky because some of these crayons they don't look used almost at all especially this
green color right here it looks so intact like you can still see the original shape and everything
and i'm a little surprised because look how close these look to.. uh! look at this look at
this crap! I literally just bought these crayons yesterday and they're already broken yet here we
have these literal 100 year old crayons perfectly intact the packaging in modern day still looks
surprisingly on brand if i was to see the old crayolas without the logo i would still recognize
it you can tell by like the little swirly bit at the end it's crayola you know that's so cool
now something that's a little sketchy if you will no pun intended
some of the colors appear to be like either in really good condition
and i think those are like the more synthetic colors and some others not so much for example
check out this violet it's literally rotting from the inside out and that could be a few things it
could be the paraffin wax it could be the pigment that it's made out of but he's looking a little
a little rough also the black seems to be in very bad condition and this
one's not so much the crayon it's actually the paper the wrapper is literally rotting
which is kind of weird because none of the other wrappings are as deteriorated as this one
so i don't know what's up with that and then lastly something that i noticed and i really
hope you guys will be able to tell this olive green you can see yellow dots in the crayons
and what that is is yellow pigment that was originally mixed in with this crayon
over time that yellow pigment actually separated from the original crayon color
which that is absolutely nuts i have never seen something like that in my whole entire life
wow all right so now that they're here now that we know what they look like let's go
ahead and swatch each individual one and again i just really want to emphasize that
these crayons are not rare they're not worth a lot of money they're just old
i mean what can i say these colors are absolutely phenomenal
and that's the thing with really old art supplies like this it was a time before they had a bunch
of lab created synthetic pigments so it's more likely that the colors are made up of more high
quality and natural pigments which i as an artist really really like and so as we're about to find
out i have a feeling that these colors are going to be drastically different than their modern day
counterpart so i went ahead i looked through all of my current crayon collection i found
almost the exact color pairs and we'll truly see how much crayola has changed over 100 years
so this section right here is -oh- pretend i just didn't touch that...
this side right here is 1928 and as you can see 2020 1928 and 2020.
i was really surprised because every single
color has the exact same name that it did from 100 years ago
all of which except for one carnation pink and rose pink now just from messing around with the
swatches and messing around with these crayons alone the only way i can describe these old
crayons is they're basically like the modern day crayons on steroids this let me present my case
the first thing i noticed was the clear difference in color the pigments in the old crayola oh my god
are they absolutely gorgeous they kind of remind me of oil color with how deep and vibrant and
saturated they are these have a little less filler they are a little bit easier to glide
in fact i would go as far as calling these crayons more like a artist wax pastel more than
just like a regular crayon and then on a final note and this is me just totally being salty
i bought these crayons literally two days ago not only is there already wax bloom on my crayons
also i was kind of sad because some of the wrappers were falling apart already and then
lastly as you guys saw as soon as i opened the crayons some of them were literally already broken
so ehhhh i've decided that i'm not going to do a drawing for this video because i really want to
preserve these crayons i absolutely do not want to break them so instead i'm just gonna add these to
my rare art supply collection so anyway guys thank you so much again for watching be sure to tune in
for part two when i test out the old watercolor and yeah i will see you guys next video bye