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Archives, Collections & History

Mrs. Collins’s love for engraving, print, typography, and graphic design history is well documented. To nurture this passion, she amassed quite a library of research material on these subjects: vintage paper and engraving samples, engravers’ sketches, type catalogs and specimens, books, pamphlets, and more books about letter writing, intaglio, monograms, crests and seals, specimens of […]

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Red calling card with metallic gold engraved script.

Calling Cards Today and Yesteryear

Do you remember those little paper cards that sociable people would exchange when meeting? Using them is still a lovely gesture. Far removed from digital and electronic media it is haptic, meaning it engages the sense of touch. Similar to business cards but with only your name. Allowing plenty of space for handwriting personal notes

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Color swatches for custom ink. Shown are various saddle colors.

Case Study III: Subtle Ink Colors

This subtle suite of bespoke, engraved stationery was recently finished and delivered to the delighted couple with their new baby in a very big city. It would be an overstatement to say that this collection is spectacular when, in fact, the color details ar so subtle it is divine. Notice, please, that the hand-drawn, and

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Thumbnail sketch for a custom box with two compartments and two portfolios. The caption has more information.

Building Bespoke Boxes

Did you ever wish you had the perfect place to keep your bespoke engraved stationery from Mrs. Collins? You can commission her to design, and have built, a personalized, custom-fitted presentation box to hold all of your stationery. Collins begins by laying out all of the pieces the bespoke case will contain. Such as letter

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