Present & Correct - Blog

This September we will be hosting Kaweco DIY, in store only, where you can stop by and put together your own glow in the dark fountain pen. 7th – 21st September, 2026 during our opening hours of 11-6pm.

Our new project, slowly documenting a collection of early to mid 20th century Japanese lottery tickets.

All taken from here.

A Tumblr of city scapes from vintage video games.

London Centre for Book Arts is an incredible place for learning how to make boxes, bind books, foil, letterpress & RISO print.

Found in the back of an old French school book.

A small collection of old drafting templates which we are hope are enjoyable and not too niche.

Scanned by us & then sold in the shop.

A catalogue of extraordinary interior colour palettes, promoting a furniture brand from 1960s Germany.

Another recent find at a flea market, we pulled these 22 stamps from an album of 1000s.

In Germany at the weekend, rummaging through a flea market for things for the shop, we also found a book of designs/plans for Modernist homes.

Happy National Eraser Day!

Typographic gold in this collection of thirty 1950s Milwaukee bus tickets.

26 drawers filled by 26 different artists.

Happy Easter to anyone celebrating!

An invitation to the Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.

500 cardboard portraits is a series of faces which are cut or torn into corrugated board, but these are pencil drawings - not photos.

For more from our trip there are two story highlights on our Instagram.

From the 1960s these French blotters promoted an encyclopaedia company.

Scans from an old peg/mosaic game we found years ago.

There are several good Walkman/personal stereo archives online (eg Walkman Archive, Walkman Central) but Walkman Land is definitely the slickest.

Scanned today from an old label company catalogue & posted on our Instagram.

Our Bloomsbury shop is at 12 Bury Place WC1A 2JL, close to the British Museum and next door to a tremendous bookshop.

Fifty early 20th Century, pre-war tourist attraction maps from Japan.

We took these photos of wrapped lemon trees, protected from the frost, at Villa Medici in Rome.

Scanned by us from an old Ricatype catalogue.

During the bus ride home today we found this auction catalog of 210 old vending & gumball machines.

From 1940 a sample brochure of label designs which are a great source of type & shape.

Twenty two old Trick or Treat bags that we have scanned in as a seasonal treat.