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“May We Live in Less Interesting Times”
Less Interesting Times Cards
This set of six festive cards feature an evergreen, relatable message: “May we live in less interesting times.”
The cards are made by Cambridge Imprint, a small paper-making business in Cambridge, England, designing and printing patterned paper. They are known for their beautiful colors, joyful illustration and typography, a lively, hand-drawn aesthetic, and meticulous attention to detail.
Happy Birthday Banner
Celebrate someone special with these large, double-sided patterned card letters, which spell out “HAPPY BIRTHDAY.” The letters are in assorted colors and designs, all with a strong folk-art aesthetic, contained in a self-closing card wallet for long term storage.
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Origami Hearts Kit
This kit contains everything you need to make thirty-six large origami hearts, or 144 small ones. The heart is simple enough for beginners to origami, suitable for adults and children over the age of seven. The instruction booklet tells you everything you need to know.
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Winter Bird Triptych Holiday Card
This three-dimensional triptych card opens in the center to reveal an additional internal image in three parts. Decorated with festive images of foliage and a beautiful bird, the card makes an attractive mantelpiece ornament and a small but thoughtful gift for someone you particularly care about.
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Iridescent Pearl Kaweco Perkeo Fountain Pen
The Iridescent Pearl Perkeo is the newest additional to our line of exceptional Kaweco pens. The shimmering color recalls the optical effects of a pearl; the translucent material of the pen shines in colors ranging from bluish-green to pink. The pen has silver-colored lettering, logo cap, and nib, reflecting the pen’s cool look and feel.
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Toasts Greeting Card Set
The cards are sold in a set of six featuring illustrations of drinking toasts in different languages and national dress adapted from Fine Drinking (Messrs. Blumenthals Ltd, 1949), a promotional booklet designed and printed by the Curwen Press for various Champagne and French liquor houses.
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Mazel Tov Greeting Card
Send joyful congratulations with these festive letterpress greeting cards, reading “Mazel Tov!” in both Hebrew and English. The font is stamped in rose-gold metallic foil on cream-colored cardstock, accompanied by a silver envelope.
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Optical-Grade Dome Magnifier
This acrylic dome gathers light to magnify what’s underneath it, resulting in sharp, clear 4x magnification. Durable and lightweight, it rests easily on books and other reading materials and stays in place for ease of use. It comes with a velvet pouch, so it’s easy to transport without scratching, though it would also be an attractive addition to any desk.
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Premium German Pencil Sharpener
Möbius & Ruppert, the German company that makes this premium pencil sharpener, is known for the exceptional quality of their sharpeners. This round brass model has a satisfying weight in the hand, and the textured exterior allows for a firm grip. The double blades result in a flawless point for graphite pencils, colored pencils, and artist’s pencils. It’s no wonder this family-owned company, the oldest sharpening company in Germany, is widely considered the best in the world.
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Orange Surprise Ball
A cultural icon today, the surprise ball was originally a popular toy in the 1950s. Surprise balls make excellent gifts, party games, and party favors. Unwind colorful layers of crepe paper ribbon to reveal many fun treasures inside this festival ball. Each layer has a new surprise, including vintage inspired toys, crystals, temporary tattoos, sweets, crowns, games, and more.
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Black Silhouette Scissors
Crafted in Italy, the Black Silhouette Scissors are designed for precision, making them perfect to cut detail work on paper or textile. The scissors are made of stainless steel with a black Teflon coating, and have a beautifully modern shape. Each pair is etched with a Studio Carta logo and packaged in a letterpress paper label and clear bag.
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Pocket Magnifying Glass
This handy magnifier offers 4X viewing power to help you see the finer things in life. Housed in a discreet sleeve, it is made from high-quality tumbled grain leather and held together by a unique brass post. Handcrafted in Massachusetts. The leather is gently tumbled in rotating drums filled with vegetable extracts to give it a distinctively soft and relaxed hand, while at the same time remaining durable. A light wax is applied during the finishing process for added surface protection.
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Air Mail Letter Writing Set
”Go, little letter, apace, apace.“
—Alfred Tennyson
Capture the nostalgia of messages sent via Air Mail with this letter writing set. Each set includes ten sheets of high-quality stationery with a classic “Air Mail” logo and a blue and red border, along with eight corresponding envelopes. We’ve paired these with a strip of ten matching “Air Mail, Par Avion” stickers, to complete the vintage style.
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J. Thoreau & Son Pencils
This pack of four pencils is an homage to those made by Henry David Thoreau and his father, John. Years before writing Walden, Henry David Thoreau joined his father’s pencil business and rediscovered a French formula for kiln-fired pencil leads—a mix of finely ground granite and clay—that could be reliably graded from hard to soft.
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The best scissors are designed for specific cutting projects. To this end, we are pleased to introduce our Paper Scissors, which are engineered specifically for cutting paper. Crafted in Italy, these scissors trace their design back to the 1950s, when flat-handled scissors were first made. Each pair features an elegant gold-plated handle paired with durable carbon steel blades.
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Pure Cotton Correspondence Pad and Envelopes
This stationery is as essential and elegant as an impeccably tailored white shirt. Pure Cotton is a paper made without any chemicals. Creamy white, with a soft woven finish and a watermark; ideal for writing with a fountain pen, a rollerball, or a ballpoint. The envelopes are lined with white tissue.
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Ruler and Letter Opener
Crafted in Italy from hard-tempered steel, this graceful yet practical tool features a refined gold-plated handle and engraved imperial measurements. A thin layer of 24-karat gold is applied to the letter opener, giving it a beautiful, shining gold finish.
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Artists’ Pencils and Chalks
Greeting Cards
This pack of four vintage-style greeting cards are blank inside and feature an illustration of artists’ colored pencils and chalks, adapted from A. W. Faber’s 1897 stationery catalogue.
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Old-School Lap Desk
Don’t be tied to a desk while working on a project. If you would rather work in bed or from an armchair (or beach chair), this lap desk will allow you to write, draw, read, or use a laptop in comfort. The top can be raised to a variety of angles, simply by placing a metal support into the appropriate notch.
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This pen is an exceptionally fine writing instrument, featured in a Financial Times piece about choosing the best diaries, notebooks, and pens. The columnist, Luke Edward Hall, calls the Scribe Rollerball “the pen of my dreams.” It has “a simple, smart shape with a rounded lid and a weighty feel. It looks kind of retro, I suppose, but not annoyingly so. It is just a brilliantly designed tool and the perfect accompaniment to my diary of choice.”
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Manufactured in Paris in a workshop built by Gustave Eiffel, this desk pad has everything one would expect of a product with such an estimable pedigree: a unique vintage look, solid construction, and high functionality. The holder is made of metal, with a nonslip backing; handsome decorative bolts hold the pad of paper in place.
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Calligraphy Kit for Beginners
This complete calligraphy kit makes it easy to start exploring this exciting art form because it comes with everything a beginning artist needs, from a set of high-quality materials to comprehensive instructions.
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Card Catalog Notecards
Evoking memories of beautiful wooden card catalogs, this replica sturdy cardboard box comes with a set of thirty flat notecards and envelopes. The front of each card reproduces an original card from the Library of Congress and features a different famous work of literature.
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Silence Please Mug
A polite exhortation, “silence please,” appears beneath the English Gothic arch at the entrance to the Bodleian Old Library. Another appears in the library’s fifteenth-century courtyard. In fact, these signs are presented at every entrance to the Bodleian, one of Europe’s oldest libraries and the main research library at the University of Oxford.
Brass Book Darts
No photographic memory? Not to worry. Brass Book Darts are the book-lover’s perfect memory aid. No need to rack your brain trying to remember where you saw that wonderful phrase or curious fact in a book you read. Just slide a Brass Book Dart onto the page next to the passage you don’t want to forget, and you’ll be able to find it again whenever your memory needs a refresher.
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Stylish Gold Paperclips
Keep important documents neat with a playful twist using these stylish gold paperclips. This pack of fifty gold clips comes in a soft blue box with a clever message—“it’s time to keep it together”—that’s as functional as it is fun. The unique teardrop shape adds flair to your everyday paper stacks, planners, or project boards—a perfect addition to your home office, classroom, or journaling setup.
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Fifty-Year Calendar Paperweight
So much information in such a compact object. This slim but hefty paperweight has fifty years of monthly calendars. Simply line up the month and year at the top of the dial to reveal the complete calendar of the desired month.
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Multi-Tool Pen
This handy aluminum six-in-one pen with black ink includes a ruler, level, and stylus, as well as flathead and Phillips screwdrivers. It’s presented in a handsome, retro-vibe gift box.
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Perfection NYRB Baseball Cap
Perfection: A virtue to strive for? An ideal to attain? A word that reminds you of something special? Or the title of the much-acclaimed NYRB book by Vincenzo Latronico—a scathing novel about contemporary existence, in which two people gradually wake up to find themselves in various traps, wondering how it all came to be. Proclaim your love of the book, the goal, the quality, or any other meaning with our handsome black baseball cap embroidered with the stirring word in pale pink.
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