Vintage Metal Crayon Tin - Antique An-Du-Septic Dustless Crayon Artista Water Colors Tin

Antique "An-Du-Septic" Artista Water Colors - Dustless Crayons advertising tin
Very good vintage condition with some wear, mark and very minimal denting (see pics)
An-Du-Septic Dustless crayons/chalk is a product that came about around the early 1900's
Some history that led up to this item:
It was 1903 when the crayon made its debut. Before that a child's crayon was just a stick of colored clay or chalk. It looked nice but when put to paper, nothing much happened — not a pretty picture. Binney & Smith was a small, 21-year-old firm, owned by Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. They were already in the business of making color. They owned the rights to a line of red oxides of iron for the red paint used by most farmers on their barns. And they were also sellers of lamp black and white chalk.
They had been among the first to solve the centuries-old problem of how to manufacture a really black black. The answer was expensive carbon black. Binney & Smith likes to credit itself for figuring out how to make it inexpensively. At the 1900 Paris Exposition, the company won a gold medal for its carbon black display.
In 1902, they cleared the dust from America's classrooms with the invention of the then-famous An-Du-Septic Dustless Blackboard Chalk. The new chalk won Binney & Smith another gold medal, at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

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