Top Drawer: Engraved Stationery

Make your mark

The rundown: Dempsey & Carroll engraved stationery with a hand-painted edge in royal ink. The engraving is in the Mrs. Eaves typeface in regent ink. Dempsey & Carroll is running their annual sale right now—correspondence cards and an engraving plate for $395.

Notable: Engraved stationery is a dying art—both the purchasing and the using of it. I try to use mine whenever possible—read my guide to engraved stationery here.

So many things which were better in the past have been abandoned for supposed convenience.

Metropolitan, 1990