A blue paint box with twelve round colours in two rows of six and a white hinged lid moulded into six large round mixing wells and a long rectangular one. Beside the pans, in its own slot, is a Pelikan tube reading Deckweiß, Chinese White, Blanc de Chine, Bianco di Cina — 7.5 ml. The tray itself is embossed Deckfarbkasten and Water Colors.

Deckfarbkasten is the word to notice. It means an opaque colour box, and that is genuinely a different animal from the transparent pans further along this shelf. Transparent watercolour builds a picture by letting the paper glow through the washes. Opaque colour covers, so a light shade can go over a dark one and a mistake can be painted out rather than lived with — which is why this format has been the European school paint box for generations.

The pans lift out. Each colour sits in its own moulded carrier with a small round button beneath it, so a spent or ruined pan comes away on its own and the rest of the box carries on. That is a real difference from a tray where the colours are set into fixed wells: a set that can be repaired one pan at a time does not have to be replaced whole.

The twelve run yellow, orange, red, magenta, violet and blue across the back, then a deeper blue, green, light green, deep yellow, orange-red and black across the front. Add the Chinese White in the tube and you have both ends of the range, which is exactly what an opaque set needs — with no white you cannot use the covering power you paid for.

Rs. 1,900 is Rs. 158.33 a colour, and it is the dearest of the three paint boxes we stock: our Giotto Acquerelli tray is Rs. 120.83 a cake and our Deli EC10-21 set is Rs. 75.24. The lift-out pans, the 7.5 ml white tube and the seven-well lid are what the difference buys.

We list this box from 6 years up. The Safencia price is Rs. 1,900 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, and stock, your city and delivery charges are confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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