Hightide Marbled Melamine Pen Tray — These Hightide Pen Trays are long enough to hold a freshly sharpened Blackwing! Shown here in Mustard.

Just Landed: More Hightide Desk Accessories!

December 14, 2021

To complement our current lineup of useful desk accessories from Hightide Co. (including a fresh restock on Sandglasses in all sizes), we’ve decided to introduce these beautiful marbled melamine pen trays, which can serve as the perfect desktop catch-all for pens, pencils, sharpeners, sticky notes, paperclips, and whatever other loose items tend to accumulate in your workspace. Available now in three colors: Mustard, Grey, and Ivory, and priced at $14 in the Curated Shop!

After a bit of a hiatus (and many requests), we’ve decided to bring back the Penco Clipboard “of the Old School,” which is a fiberboard clipboard that’s about as “old school” as you can get. Now available in two sizes, A4 and A5, priced at $8 and $10 respectively.

The T.G.S. Curated Shop is an authorized retailer of all brands sold. By shopping with us directly, you are supporting original content, pen reviews, pen show events, etc. from The Gentleman Stationer. If you would like to support us even further, please consider checking out the T.G.S. Patreon Program, which offers access to online meetups, exclusive discounts and pre-orders, and more!

Introducing Life Stationery Writing Pads

December 7, 2021

The T.G.S. Curated Shop has always featured a wide range of luxury writing pads, including those from brands such as Write Notepads, Rhodia, Clairefontaine, and now, Life Stationery. We just received a shipment of Life A4 Noble Note, Letter-sized Bank Paper, and A4 Typewriter pads, all of which are available for purchase as of this morning. If you haven’t tried Life paper, it’s some of the most versatile Japanese paper out there, whether you’re looking for smooth (Noble Note), textured (Bank Paper), or lightweight (Typewriting Paper). The Noble Note and Bank Paper pads contain a whopping 100 sheets! Check out these and other Life Stationery products here.

A paper specifically made for typewriters? Count me in!

Introducing CW&T Pen Type-C

November 30, 2021

If you’ve been following my adventures in building out the T.G.S. Curated Shop over the past two years, you’ll know that in addition to stationery, I have a serious interest in reading accessories. While I’ve previously discussed how the Traveler’s Company Brass Ballpoint pen is an excellent choice for annotation and marginalia, I’ve long kept my eye on CW&T’s Pen Type-C, a flat “bookmark-style” pen that’s machined from titanium and features Pilot’s Hi-Tec-C Coleto multipen refill. While you won’t want to write a novel with a flat pen like Pen Type-C, that’s not it’s intended purpose. I’ve used this pen as both a bookmark (shown below), and it also slips easily into both the zippered Traveler’s Notebook pen case and the inside cover of my Roterfaden for maximum portability.

As of this morning, Pen Type-C is available in the Curated Shop, priced at $50. I also have a handful of Hi-Tec-C Coleto refills in an assortment of colors. To refill the pen, you remove the plastic “cap” at the end of the refill (designed for compatibility with the multipen, so it’s not needed here), and insert the refill into the notch in the center of Pen Type-C. For those interested in the full-size Pen Type-B and Pen Type-A, both of which feature CW&T’s signature pneumatic sleeves, we recently restocked and have most finishes available for purchase. You can also read my write-up of Pen Type-B here!

T.G.S. Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale: Take 10% off with "BLACKFRIDAY"

November 26, 2021

I hope everyone stateside enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving with their family and friends, and most importantly was able to set aside things like work and shopping for a day! “Black Friday” typically kicks off the holiday shopping season in full, and has morphed from a single day to a nearly week-long extravaganza of discounts and promotions. The T.G.S. Curated Shop Black Friday discount is fairly straightforward: Take 10% off all orders placed through Cyber Monday (November 29, 11:59pm ET) using the coupon code “BLACKFRIDAY” at checkout. Don't forget this is also good on all items in the “Gently Used” shop, which features pieces from my own personal collection that I’m trying to clear out.

For the full details of what we are focused on this holiday season in the shop, please check out the T.G.S. 2021 Holiday Gift Guide! As I noted Tuesday, we recently restocked on:

Midori MD Notebooks, Notepads, Pens, and Pencils. We currently have all sizes and rulings of Midori MD notebooks in stock, as well as notebook covers, woodcase pencils, and even the Midori MD fountain pen.
Traveler’s Company Notebooks and Pens. A leather Traveler’s Notebook, personalized for the recipient with refills and accessories that you think they’ll enjoy, would make a wonderful gift (and it’s one of the most versatile pieces of stationery kit out there if you’re shopping for yourself). We carry the entire line, including the newly released “B-Sides and Rarities” Collection that features a series of refills containing specialty papers chosen by Traveler’s Company for unique purposes.
Hightide Folding Book Stands and Sandglasses. These desk accessories have been favorites since I started the Curated Shop, and Book Stands now come in nearly a dozen different colors, with Sandglasses being difficult to keep in stock. I should have more available soon if they end up selling out over the weekend.
Penco “Perfection” Bullet Pens. Penco makes a range of high quality pocket pens and pencils, including the brass “Perfection” bullet pens as well as the pocket drafting pens. Nearly all versions are currently available.

This discount is good for all brands with the exception of TWSBI and Sunderland, which I’m unable to discount due to my agreements with those companies. The T.G.S. Curated Shop is an authorized retailer of all brands sold. By shopping with us directly, you are supporting original content, pen reviews, pen show events, etc. from The Gentleman Stationer. If you would like to support us even further, please consider checking out the T.G.S. Patreon Program, which offers access to online meetups, exclusive discounts and pre-orders, and more!

2021 Holiday Gift Guide Christmas Ornament

The T.G.S. 2021 Holiday Gift Guide is Live!

November 16, 2021

It’s that time of year again, and consistent with my firmly held belief that Halloween and Thanksgiving are still holidays, I’ve held off on issuing the T.G.S. Holiday Gift Guide until the second half of November! (Personally, I’d love to wait until Black Friday, but given shipping delays, everyone should be getting a head start on orders.) As with last year, the 2021 Holiday Gift Guide features a selection of products from the fully restocked T.G.S. Curated Shop.

While the gift guide has more than a dozen different gift ideas, if I had to pick three personal favorites for gift-giving this year, they would be the following:

Caran d’Ache 849 Rollerball Pens. These have now started shipping in the Caran d’Ache metal clamshell cases, so they make an impressive gift presentation that won’t break the bank. While the 849 Rollerball ships with an excellent Caran d’Ache Rollerball refill, the pen accepts any Parker-style refill, ballpoint or rollerball. Your recipient will be able to easily use this pen for a long time.
A Midori MD Notebook with a Natural Goat Leather Cover. I’ve found that few gift ideas are more universally loved than nice notebooks, because even non “pen people” use notebooks in one way or another. The Midori MD brand combines both high-quality paper and a universal size cover that can probably be refilled not only with easily available MD notebooks but other similarly-sized refills.
Hightide Co. Desktop Hourglass and/or Folding Metal Book Stand. I LOVE analog timers that don’t feature a jarring buzzer, and these Hightide Co. desktop sandglasses/hourglasses are one of my favorite items in the shop. They’re useful and they look great in an office. Similarly, the folding metal book stands make an inexpensive, yet thoughtful, gift for the reader or office worker, who can use it to hold anything from a book to a notepad or electronic tablet.

Check out these and more in the 2021 Gift Guide. We’ve been receiving a high volume of orders lately, but don’t be concerned if something is sold out - We are constantly restocking and recently placed a couple of large orders so please keep checking back.