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Happy New Year!

This year we are offering the very last from a late 1990s limited edition of French-folded hand engraved onion skin Happy New Year cards. Individual, hand engraved card and complimentingly lined envelopes. $15.45, including shipping. Purchase here. Traditional etiquette suggests one has the entire first month of the new year to receive New Years notes and good […]

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November News & Early Holiday

Everything you always wanted to know about stationery engraving and limited edition engraved goodies for the holidays: Published in PRINT Magazine…“Glossary of Engraving Terms” by Nancy Sharon Collins. The featured image, lower right, from 1859 shows one method used for book illustration still in use until the turn of the last century. In this glossary, excerpted from her

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Old fashioned script and handwriting on the front and back of an antique letter

11/3/16 Sugar Bakeshop, Charleston

How to Write a Letter Thurs., Nov. 3, 6-8:00pm Sugar Bakeshop 59-1/2 Cannon Street Charleston, South Carolina Register here Hands-on Workshop…It’s not calligraphy or English composition. It is learning two distinct and compatible skills that may be new to attendees: 1) 5-point punch list for writing successful personal correspondence. 2) Enabling people to become comfortable

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Hand engraved steel die and prints of it. Details are in the caption beneath the image.

3. Nancy Says—Clients are Loyal

In this third of the 10 part mini-video series Nancy Sharon Collins, stationer extraordinaire, offers an example of why her clients are loyal. In 2001 she was featured on the Martha Stewart Living TV show that landed one of her earliest and most faithful clients. The product of this particular client collaboration is seen in

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Fall Classes for 2016

Letter writing and monogram classes given again this autumn by Nancy Sharon Collins, tickets are limited so sign up now: 11/3/16 Letter Writing Class at Sugar Bakeshop in Charleston, SC. 11/12/16 Letter Writing Class, French Quarter, New Orleans. SOLD OUT. 11/12/16 Monogram Class, French Quarter, New Orleans. SOLD OUT. Monogram Class: Create your very own custom, hand

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