BRITISH STATIONERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 24

BRITISH STATIONERY

A DISPLAY OF ART INDUSTRIES FAIR Although most people are forgetting all about greeting cards for nearly another year there are many who a.re vitally interested in the designs for the Christmas cards of 1928, and a special section will be devoted to these artistic products at the British Industries Fair in London and Birmingham next month. The British stationery trade is universally acknowledged to be the most artistic in the world to-day and British manufacturers are preparing for the fair an exhibit of stationery and office requisites which must command the special attention of both Home and overseas buyers. Stationery articles cover a very wide range in these modern days, and among the exhibits will be found both necessities and luxuries for use in the home or office. Present-day demands favour notepapers of extra fine texture and beautiful tints and according to information received by the office of His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner in Wellington the fair will see notepapers which would be worthy adjuncts to a royal palace. There will be the latest designs in steel pens, including noncorrosive nibs of almost indefinite durability, all the latest fashions in fountain pens and writing inks of all tints which will not fade for hundreds of years. Pencils of Empire-grown cedar will be a feature and the typewriter in which the King was particularly interested during the 1926 fair will again be on view. Next year will be provided for by new calendar designs and 1928 greeting cards.