Made to Order
The Season's Choice
The Wren Calling Card
The house's own card, copper-cut and unhurried — your name, and nothing it need not carry.
Per Hundred · 24
View the cardAurelian & Wren
requests the favour of your acquaintance
The Autumn Cutting
Michaelmas · The Season of 1868
At the Bench on Bedford Row
For you, and whoever you write to —
The Collection
Prices in guineas
Made to Order
The Aurelian Announcement
For a birth, a betrothal, a remove to a new address — the announcement engraved as the occasion asks.
Per Hundred · 32
In Stock
The Armorial Wax Seal
A full armorial, struck deep in bronze — the crest as your grandfather knew it.
Each · 6
In Stock
The Cipher Wax Seal
Two letters, interlocked and cut for the melt — the everyday seal of a careful hand.
Each · 4
Made to Order
The Monogram Die
A steel die of your monogram, cut once and kept — the plate the house presses from.
The Die · 65
Made to Order
The Crest Die
Your arms drawn and cut to the die — a crest to head the sheet and close the envelope.
The Die · 90
In Stock
The Bench Letterpress
A small bench press in iron and brass — to take the die and lay the ink yourself.
The Press · 140
In Stock
Bottle of House Ink
The house ink, milled in our own colours — engraver's black, the house bordeaux, oak-gall sepia.
The Bottle · 3
The Calling Card
Copper-cut to your own hand, and pressed a hundred at a time.
Aurelian & Wren
will engrave to your own hand —
The Wren Calling Card
Eleanor Ashcombe
Fine Laid Cotton, Cream · Engraver's Black · One hundred
The Order
What stands in the order, totted in the office hand.
| The Good | Quantity | The Sum | Withdraw |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wren Calling CardFine Laid Cotton, Cream · House Bordeaux | 300 | 72 | |
| The Armorial Wax SealBronze, struck deep | 2 | 12 | |
| Bottle of House InkOak-Gall Sepia | 1 | 3 | |
| The House Allowance | – | ||
| The Standing Balance · in guineas | 87 | ||
To Be Commissioned The order stands open; commission it, and the plates go to the bench.
The order stands empty.
Your order here, when it comes —
The Day-Book
Every order entered, and where it stands at the bench.
| No. | Directed to | Sum | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1204 | Mr. Rowan Whitfield | 46 | Delivered |
| 1205 | The Hon. Mrs. Ellery | 118 | At the Bench |
| 1203 | Capt. Harding | – | Withdrawn |
Sums in guineas