From left to right in the above pic:
I don’t have the earliest version of the Crosman container (pre-Crosman Arms, it was a Crosman Bros box); the earliest container in my collection is for “CROSMAN .22 PELLS” for the Crosman Pneumatic .22 (the only rifle they made at the time). The ‘Pells’ were soon to become 'SuperPells'—Crosman initially used a stick-on label on the boxes to introduce the new name.
The first boxes with the ‘SuperPells’ name feature a graphic of the pellet itself, along with what I have always assumed to be a piece of roundball ammo (even though all Crosman were rifled and were not intended for roundball). From this point on, all pellet containers would be available in both .177 and .22.
The next version of container is the venerable cardboard tube with crimped tin ends. From this point on, SuperPell containers would be available in different sizes as well as different calibers. There are at least 3 different versions of these style tubes: ‘Rochester 7’, ‘Rochester 7 Made in USA’, and, subsequent to Crosman’s move from Rochester, ‘Fairport’. The containers come in 250 and 500 count for both .177 and .22.
The next container is the traditional tube but with updated graphics: Crosman has dropped the image of the pellet and has introduced the ‘dot-in-the-C-target’ version of the Crosman logo. These ‘Super Pells’ (with a space) were a very short-lived version, as Crosman was about to make the leap to metal tins.
The metal tin containers, often referred to as “pepper cans”, reintroduce an image of the ‘SuperPell’ (space is gone again) itself: the good old ‘flying ashcans’. There are at least two versions of these tins: those with the caliber indicated on the front, and those without. The ones without preceded the ones with (if you stack two tins of different calibers side-by-side, you cannot tell which is which). Crosman was quick to see the necessity of putting the caliber info on the front.
The next pepper can introduces the ‘bulls-eye-hits-on-the-4-ring-target’ logo, and goes to an all red scheme. The image of the pellet is gone again, and the space is back in ‘Super Pells’. [As a side note, I have always found that the hardest-to-find tins are the .177/500 count tins; for some reason, this is a much rarer tin.]
Crosman then introduces “Lubricated Super Pells”, often seen with a ‘NEW’ sticker affixed to the tin. The ‘Super Pells’ name is now registered.
The last of the pepper cans is the “New Lubricated Super Pells” with a plastic flip-open top (no more metal sliders).
The next container is an all-plastic tube style. Crosman re-introduces the image of the pellet on the packaging: still the flying ashcan. I have only found these containers in 250 count sizes, for both .177 and .22; I’ve not seen a 500 count package for either caliber. (It could certainly exist, I’ve just not seen one).
From this point on, Crosman begins using the plastic belt-clip design, and my collecting interest rapidly wanes. From a shooting perspective, it is only now that Crosman pellets become interesting, shedding the traditional ashcan design for the proven diabolo with the introduction of the Premier line of pellets.