Archetypal objects of use in the office, in the study or library. Writing implements, study aids, tools for household repair, construction and fabrication
Archetypal objects of use in the office, in the study or library. Writing implements, study aids, tools for household repair, construction and fabrication

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Gift vouchers, or certificates in denominations of £10.00, £25.00, £50.00, or £100.00 of letter-pressed card produced for us in the printing workshop ..

Objects of Use gift certificates
£10.00 - £100.00
A partially serrated carbon steel sickle knife, with a tape splitting hook to the back, a poplar handle, and a wire hanging loop. Incredibly sharp bot..

‘Resting Deer’ box opener or small pruning knife
£8.50
With a curved back design dating to 1943, patented jam release mechanism - the front piece slides up and locks into place allowing easy access to the ..

Zenith 520 stapler
£1.20 – £37.50
Although not the worlds first staple puller, since its design by Giorgio Balma in 1858 the Zenith 580 has become recognised as the standard by which a..

Zenith 580 staple puller
£8.00
With either with one end pointed and one rounded, or else both ends rounded. 178mm. Sterilised cow bone. Not a voodoo device for the folding of bones,..

Bone folders
£8.00
A lightly sharpened natural ox-horn letter opener made from the horns of Nigerian long horned fulani cattle and hand cut, shaped, and polished to an a..

Oxhorn letter opener
£21.00
A cast pewter pistol grip handled letter opener with a straight stiletto shaped stainless steel blade for lasting relative sharpness and longevity. Ca..

Pewter pistol grip letter opener
£23.00
A choice of A5 or A6 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebooks with 100 of either ruled, plain, or 5mm graph pages, cotton cloth bound corners and spines..

Portuguese notebooks – Galocha
£12.50 - £19.50
A choice of A5 or A6 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebooks with 100 of either ruled, plain, or 10mm dot-grid pages, cotton cloth bound spines, and ma..

Portuguese notebooks – natural card, with band
£12.50 - £19.50
Made in Japan of Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and used extensively in-house as the medium of ..

Diary paper book blocks, plain, ruled, or squared
£14.00
Note or exercise books printed, stitch bound, and trimmed at a small workshop in Tokyo. Each consists of 30 pages of fine watermarked paper of a type ..

‘Foolscap’ notebooks, B5, B6, A7
£3.00 – £4.50
Kaweco first produced a Liliput fountain pen in 1910, originally in ebonite a kind of super vulcanised rubber and advertised as a safety pen for sport..

Kaweco Liliput fountain pen
£48.00 – £70.50
Kaweco Sport aluminium pocket fountain pen. 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Milled from solid aluminium blanks, laser engraved, and hand polished. Kaweco,..

Kaweco AL Sport fountain pens
£66.00
Increasingly easy to find, due no doubt to their obvious brilliance, we were once (as far as we know) one of only two shops in the country to stock th..

Kaweco fountain pen
£21.00
A beautifully milled, black anodised aluminium bodied dip pen. Something of a return to Kaweco’s origins as the company was originally founded in 1883..

Kaweco dip pen
£36.00
An elegant mid-length octagonal polished brass clutch pencil for 0.5mm graphite leads, fine enough for use as a writing or occasional sketching pencil..

Kaweco 'Special' brass pencil
£5.70 – £51.00
8 sided clips for Kaweco sport pens, available either gold, or chrome plated. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began produci..

Kaweco clips
£2.40
Kaweco superior ink cartridges box of 6, pearl black, royal blue, midnight blue, palm green, ruby red, or caramel brown. Standard short international ..

Kaweco ink cartridges
£2.10
Water-based fountain pen and brush inks from Kyoto, Japan. Made with traditional recipes, materials, and techniques used since at least the Heian peri..

Kyo no oto Japanese ink
£20.00
A shaped leather case for two Kaweco sport fountain pens or pencils. Squeeze to open, protects the pens whilst loose in a pocket or handbag, with a lo..

Kaweco leather case
£17.50
Heavy bodied, black in the case of the Toison d’Or, or yellow for the Versatil, lacquered clutch pencils supplied with pocket clips and sharpeners sec..

Toison d’Or or Versatil clutch pencils
£2.25 – £5.00
A set of six mechanical coloured pencils with matching 2mm leads, and a natural rubber eraser in a tin box. The pencils are fitted with a small 'V' sh..

Koh-I-Noor drawing pencils
£2.25 – £30.00
Heavy aluminium bodied sketching pencils with brass and steel clutch mechanisms and chromed fittings. Supplied with a fine 2B graphite lead as standar..

Artist’s 5.6mm clutch pencils
£3.60 – £12.00
A thinner pencil with a mechanical advance and integral sharpener (inside the push button) for purses, pockets and small notebooks. During the Napoleo..

Notebook pencil
£0.90 – £10.20
A shorter, rubber covered, metal clutch pencil with a softer grip and sharpener secured inside the push button top. During the Napoleonic wars a conti..

Versatil 'soft' clutch pencil
£3.80 – £13.80
Originally developed by Eberhard Faber in the 1930s the Blackwing featured a specially developed lead containing wax as an addition to the typical gra..

Blackwing pencils
£4.00 – £30.00
Indelible pencils suitable for use on cheques, deeds, or contracts. Traditionally a lawyers pencil, but also commonly used by reporters before the inv..

Lawyer's pencils
£2.00
A double ended pencil divided approximately equally into two halves of blue and red wax based coloured leads. First introduced in 1909 for use by the ..

Twin colour pencil
£1.00
A more environmentally friendly version of the ubiquitous highlighter pen made without so much single use plastic being instead a traditional wood cas..

Dry marker highlighter pencil
£1.20
A pair of double ended carpenter’s pencils both made with a combination of 2B graphite and red or blue wax based coloured leads allowing for clear and..

Set of two carpenter’s pencils
£3.00
Specialist fabric marking chalk pencils produced for the company of La Manufacture Bohin, whose museum workshops in Saint Sulpice sur Risle, Normandy ..

Tailor’s pencils
£2.75
Faber Castell's Polychromos artists' colour pencils have particularly soft waterproof wax leads. Their smoothness and resistance to smudging makes the..

Polychromos pencils
£24.50 – £74.50
A choice of natural latex rubber erasers from České Budějovice, in the Czech Republic. The uniquely patterned ’Magic’ erasers are slightly the hardest..

Natural rubber & kneadable erasers
£0.65 – £1.00
A choice of five brass pencil sharpeners from the company of Möbius + Ruppert whose founder Theodore Paul Möbius pioneered the design and industrial p..

Pencil sharpeners
£4.10 – £24.50
DUX precision sharpeners with swarf containers, for use with pencils and crayons. Produced in Duroplast, a hard dense thermosetting plastic not dissim..

DUX pencil sharpeners
£8.50 – £12.00
Hand poured sand-cast brass stationery trays in three sizes from a foundry founded in 1897 in the central Japanese city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefectur..

Ihada stationery trays
£45.00 – £65.00
Hand poured sand-cast brass tin lined weighted tool holders or desk tidies from a foundry founded in 1897 in the city of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture. W..

Ihada tool holders
£200.00 – £250.00
Deep green and white marbled desk trays of thermosetting melamine resin, made in Thailand for Hightide of Japan. In three sizes, a long narrow pen tra..

Melamine desk trays
£14.00 – £18.00
Hand poured sand-cast, and foot-pads aside (or in the case of the smaller springs also), entirely brass tape dispenser from a foundry founded in 1897 ..

Ihada tape dispensers
£195.00 – £200.00
Hand poured sand-cast brass paper weights from a foundry founded in 1897 in the central Japanese city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture. With minimal ch..

Ihada paper weights
£50.00 – £55.00
Desk-top or wall mounted tape dispensers with bodies made of a single piece of folded and enamelled sheet steel, with hardened cutting blades, and one..

Enamelled steel tape dispensers
£24.00 – £34.50
Moderately flexible rulers of 0.5mm stainless steel, either 15cm or 30cm measuring length and 13mm wide. Zeroed to one end, with a hole for hanging at..

Stainless steel rulers
£4.00 – £5.00
Beautifully machined colour anodised aluminium metric triangular drafting or architects scales from Japan. With metre scales in 1:100 which doubles as..

Japanese drafting scales
£13.50
Nickel plated, black lacquered offset handled professional pinking shears with extra deep, variably raked teeth for a satisfyingly crisp pinked cut. P..

Pallarès pinking shears, 7”
£39.00
120mm, or 150mm hand forged, Japanese scissors, with a bronzed blackened finish, and san mai laminated blades giving a harder more durable edge. Follo..

Nigiri-basami scissors
£39.50 – £48.00
Classic English joiners marking knives, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pe..

Left or right handed marking knives
£6.00
Wood carving knives from Morakniv of Sweden made to the classic Erik Frost 106, 120, 162, or 163 patterns. The 106 has an 82mm tapering blade of lamin..

Mora ‘Erik Frost’ wood carving knives
£22.50 – £37.50
Superior wood carving knives from Sweden with alloyed carbon steel blades and polished rosewood handles and supplied with vegetable tanned leather she..

Sloyd and crook knives
£32.00 – £38.50
Simple hand forged knives with traditional silk bound handles and a triple layered san-mai construction, meaning a hard 'blue paper' steel core is emb..

Kiridashi craftsman's knives
£42.50
Natural Belgian coticule sharpening stones, either rectangular in shape and approximately 75mmx30mmx20mm - a surface of 22.5cm², or irregularly s..

Belgian stones
£26.50 – £31.00
A double sided portable whetstone for use on axes and other straight or convex garden and outdoor tools. Always used with water the stone has a coarse..

Double sided axe stone
£40.00
A French made hornbeam tape measure modelled on an ancient and classic design. The tape is of a specially manufactured 1 metre cotton jacquard ribbon,..

Hornbeam tape measure
£18.50
A traditional dressmaker’s thimble of gold plated brass. Cast, chased, and plated in France and of a type intended for hard and continuous use by the ..

Dressmaker's thimble
£13.50
Packets of 20 sharps and darners or, 40 sharps and milliners, general purpose sewing needles still made using the original machines at the museum fact..

French needles
£4.70 – £6.00
Boxes of black, white, or coloured glass headed pins from the museum factory of La Manufacture Bohin in Saint Sulpice sur Risle, Normandy - since 1952..

French glass headed pins, 20 grams
£9.50
A box of 200 no.4 extra-fine hardened and tempered ‘Couturex’ professional quality pins, smooth and properly tapered for use without snagging on fine ..

200 French extra-fine pins
£3.00
Packs of 24 all brass, coil sprung, safety pins of either 19mm or 23mm in length. Being especially fine and sharp these are particularly recommended f..

French brass safety pins
£2.30 – £2.50
Packs of 12 safety pins of either 36mm or 44mm length, made in the classic 'French' style, that is without a coil, but with the addition at the elbow ..

French ball sprung safety pins
£3.50 - £4.00
Tangle-free capsules containing 50m of linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France the thread is lightly waxed for easier sewing. Be..

Fil au Chinoise linen thread
£7.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread. Mercerised cotton is specially treated to improve..

No.80 cotton sewing thread
£2.50
60 metre balls of bi-coloured 2 ply jute twine in either a red/blond or blue/blond mix. Whilst as weather resistant as more traditional jute garden tw..

Bi-coloured jute twine
£2.50
A choice of two hammers from Japan. Hammer no.1 - a carpenters hammer for the driving and pulling of nails, with a 400g (about 14oz) tempered tool ste..

Japanese hammers nos. 1 & 2
£35.00 – £38.50
A double sided file of a type typically used for sharpening ryoba saws. These can only be used on traditional oil quenched steel blades and not those ..

Japanese no.4 feather file for ryoba saws
£18.00
At the turn of the 20th century the city of Sheffield was littered with an abundance of small scale tool manufacturers - the little mesters. Today ver..

Carpenter’s mallet
£13.50
A narrow rectangular headed lighter weight Japanese Oak carpenters mallet from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. Na..

Kakugi mallet
£19.00
A general purpose carpenters mallet from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. With a beech head impregnated with wax f..

Katate Kakeya, Japanese beech and oak mallet
£22.50
Oval beech handled screwdrivers with precision ground tempered steel blades for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffiel..

Cabinet screwdrivers, flathead
£13.50 – £22.00
Oval beech handled screwdrivers with precision ground tempered steel blades for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffiel..

Cabinet screwdrivers, pozi-head
£12.00 – £13.50
6 or 9 inch spirit levels made of sustainably harvested walnut rather than the now protected and increasingly rare rosewood. With upper brass plates, ..

Joseph Marples walnut spirit levels
£18.50 – £28.50
With machined brass faced sustainably forested walnut stocks riveted to tempered blued steel blades, these squares are manufactured to exceed BS3322, ..

6 or 9 inch squares
£14.00 – £18.00
Unchanged in recipe, design, or packaging since its launch in 1927, Coccoina contains in its aluminium tin a separate compartment holding a small brus..

Coccoina paste glue
£4.00
A thick black olive based soap with added ground olive kernel scrub. Produced using traditional processing methods, simmered and concentrated for long..

Marseille soap scrub with olive kernals, 1l
£15.00
6.5" Bright carbon steel, traditional cockade design barber's scissors. Forged and ground in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scisso..

Barber's scissors
£25.00
Official referee whistle. Following on from its cousin the Metropolitan, and a year younger being born in 1884, the Thunderer came about as Joseph Hud..

The Thunderer
£9.00
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone soun..

Police whistle
£12.00
The original Admiralty Boatswain’s pipe or call (it should never called a whistle) made to an Acme design of 1870, and still used by navies worldwide ..

Boatswain's pipe
£26.50
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Household scissors
£30.00
8" chrome plated, black lacquered handles, sidebent trimmers for flat working. Good for use as tailor's shears, or for card and paper - the k..

Left or right handed fabric and paper shears
£42.00 – £47.00
Chrome plated, black lacquered handles, sidebent for flat working available in 10

Tailor's shears or flat cut scissors
£60.00 – £86.50
Eight or nine inch hot forged chrome plated carbon steel tailor's shears with black enamelled handles and large easy adjust bolts for tightening or di..

German tailor's shears
£42.00 - £50.00
Nickel-plated steel embroidery scissors from France in a classic rabbit pattern. Like the stork, the rabbit is an ancient symbol of fertility - think ..

Rabbit embroidery scissors
£25.50
Steel and nickel plated hot forged, hand ground, paired, and finished 5.5 inch Catalan sewing scissors, with one pointed and one rounded tip for detai..

Catalan sewing scissors, 5.5”
£16.50
5mm or 8mm copper tacks used in the production of shaker boxes and furniture. Made in Charlotte, Michigan on 19th century equipment. Round headed and..

Shaker nails
£13.50 – £16.00
Packs of 100 square sectioned, large headed, blued steel nails forged from cold drawn stock. Due to their irregularly surfaced four sided shafts (and ..

Forged nails
£7.50 – £13.50
A traditional gentleman’s folded money clip of folded and polished brass. Smaller and significantly less bulky than wallets these never-the-less help ..

Brass money clip
£10.00
A folding beech wood book stand ideal for use with cookbooks, music books, or for place holding academic texts for reference whilst writing - in fact ..

Book stand
£35.00
Built to last a lifetime, of stainless steel with an ash handle. This is the perfect tool both for the careful scraping away accreted layers of earth,..

Archeologist’s trowel
£42.00
A simple but effective archival paper glue from Japan. Traditionally used for the fixing of washi paper to wooden frames in the making of Japanese sho..

Shoji nori glue
£5.00
Heirloom quality dishwasher-safe versions of this very traditional English cream handled cutlery style, still being made in Sheffield - home since 163..

Cream handled Sheffield letter opener
£18.50
Six mechanical coloured pencils with matching leads in a vegetable tanned leather case. The pencils a fitted with a small 'V' shaped lead shar..

Koh-I-Noor drawing pencils in a leather case
£2.25 – £52.50
A box of 12 HB pencils. Alexander Graf von Faber-Castell invented the

Box of 12 pencils
£15.00
An unexpectedly but pleasingly heavy brass pen case from a small and well established metal pressing workshop located in downtown Tokyo. Left raw, tha..

Brass pencil case
£50.00
A downy birch ten section folding rule from Sweden, with precise steel hinges and brass end-caps. Downy birch is fine grained and retains it's str..

Folding rule
£10.00
An interesting folding rule which has each segment made of a different European hardwood, so serving as a timber identifier, sampler, and measuring to..

Hardwood sampler rule
£27.50
150mm black burnished forged carbon steel sprung pencil grip compasses, with tempered hardened points, bichromate screws, brass fittings, and a unique..

Compass
£35.00
200mm black burnished carbon steel sprung dividers, with tempered hardened points, bichromate screws, brass fittings, and a unique 2 part quick releas..

Dividers
£30.00
Nickel plated, black lacquered offset handled professional pinking shears with extra deep, variably raked teeth for a satisfyingly crisp pinked cut. P..

Pinking shears
£42.50
Hand forged with a san mai blade construction, meaning hard fine grained steel perfect for forming and holding a persistent sharp edge has been lamina..

Japanese household scissors
£125.00
Hand forged, ground, and paired desk scissors from Tanegashima, one of the Ōsumi Islands of the southern coast of Kyushu, and renowned for almost five..

Japanese desk scissors
£79.00
Small Japanese scissors wrapped in red and white silk cord. The scissors are forged from a single billet, the blades and centre being beaten flat at r..

Small nigiri-basami
£18.00
A single right beveled Japanese craftsman's knife made with flexible malleable iron forged to a water quenched fully hardened high carbon steel edge, ..

Yokote – YoshiTakahisa
£26.50
A calciferous sandstone natural whetstone from Kyushu Island, Japan. Ideal for sharpening dull but undamaged edges it readily releases dulled abrasive..

White Amakusa stone
£18.50
A fine (≈6000 grit) and fairly hard putty to blue-grey streaked natural hone cut from the even grained Rozsutec sandstone quarried in the Slovak..

Natural Rozsutec bench stone
£16.00
For centuries in Japan the cold pressed oil of sweet camellia seeds has been used for the protection of fine blades, tools, and weapons. As an acid fr..

Camellia oil
£8.50
A fine high quality polishing and stropping compound for honing blades on leather strops, or cleaning and polishing metals - steel, chrome, copper, br..

Gundel-Putz polishing or stropping paste
£10.00
The classic Maison Sajou model Nᴼ1 Boîte à Couture, comprising of embroidery scissors, nickel plated thimble, blue ribbon measuring tape, seam ripper,..

Sewing box
£65.00
A box of 100 French triangular headed pins, especially useful for machine sewn quilting work as the heads allow the pins to lie flat but are large eno..

100 French triangular headed pins
£4.80
Individually hand-forged (and therefore quite variable) small striking hammers from Japan, fitted with smooth, shaped, untreated white oak handles pyr..

Japanese hammer no.3 (kodzuchi)
£80.00
A general purpose double sided Japanese carpentry saw with a 240mm blade. The two sides have different purposes, the finer toothed side is for cutting..

Japanese ryoba saw
£39.00
A set of 7 auger gimlets made in France of blackened tempered steel wire. 2mm to 5mm diameters in 0.5mm gradients. A type of hand drill especially use..

Gimlet set
£13.00
A 7½″ thumbscrew sliding bevel of sustainably forested walnut, blue tempered steel, and brass. For the measuring, marking, and transfer o..

Sliding bevel
£16.00
An adaptable marking gauge made of beech with the advantage of a partially brass fronted headstock. With spurs either side of the beam, a single pin f..

Combination marking and mortise gauge
£17.00
A traditional brass wedged, steel bladed cutting gauge made of sustainably forested walnut with a half round stem and stock, brass plates to hold off ..

Walnut cutting gauge
£22.00
A fully adjustable pad saw for cutting in tight, blind, or enclosed spaces, the blade being retraced to reduce flex or for when movement is restricted..

Joseph Marples pad saw
£17.50
A box of 12 square sawn white writing chalks, with special paper sleeves which protects fingers from dust and smudges. The paper is loose and intended..

Drei Sterne school chalk
£3.00
Square sawn coloured school chalk, with a special paper sleeve which protects fingers from dust and smudges. The paper is loose and intended to be wit..

NEOCOLOR seminar pack
£5.00
5" surgical grade stainless steel twin sharp tips for accurate cutting. Made in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scissor makers since 17..

Nurses scissors
£14.50
6" surgical steel, twin pointed blades. Designed for use in operating theatres, for tough materials and fine work, they are more generally the be..

Dissection scissors
£14.00
Rough finished* yet surprisingly delicate hand forged household and hairdressing scissors from Vietnam. Made of carbon steel, with dipped handles for ..

Vietnamese hair & household scissors
£13.50
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibratin..

Siren whistle
£35.00
A nickle silver traditional English shepherd’s lip whistle, used for the training and control of sheepdogs. This can take a little practice to make a ..

Shepherd's whistle
£5.00
A set of five strong aluminium clothes pegs or cloth grips from Tokyo. Each grip is supplied with a split ring attached to the back of one jaw allowin..

Japanese cloth grips
£11.00
6.5" dressmaking scissors of nickel plated steel. Forged, ground, and assembled in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scissor makers since 176..

Dressmaking scissors
£17.50
8" high carbon specially case hardened tool steel scissors developed for the cutting of carbon, kevlar, and glass fibre cloths - materials which ..

Composite materials scissors
£48.00
Hot forged 7” chrome plated, dipped handled, side-bent cutting out scissors, ideal for use on flat surfaces, or for the accurate cutting of thicker pa..

Cutting out scissors
£20.50
4.5 inch chrome plated hot forged carbon steel sprung looped threadclips. Designed to hang from the finger whilst sewing allowing for regular and easy..

Threadclips
£16.50
There is no doubt that folding scissors have acquired something of a bad reputation in recent years being found amidst the shoddy offerings of airport..

Folding scissors
£72.00
Uncommonly fine and clearly defined hot forged Solingen steel embroidery scissors cut and ground by the master grinders of Dovo Stahlwaren and finishe..

Stork embroidery scissors from Solingen
£32.50
Petits Monstres embroidery scissors - so called because the disproportion between handles and blades is thought to make them resemble precisely that. ..

Little monsters scissors
£47.50
7” large handled chrome plated carbon steel couturière, or dressmaker’s pattern cutting scissors made in small workshops in the town of Nogent in the ..

French couturière scissors
£55.00
Steel and nickel plated hot forged, hand ground, paired, and finished 8 inch elegant Catalan dressmaking scissors, with one pointed and one rounded ti..

Catalan dressmaking scissors, 8”
£24.00