The last bastion...

Whatever you may have against government offices, archives, and Dickensian solicitors…they do at least stand like bulwarks against the rising tide of electronic disinformation. Local planning authorities for example, tend, even today, to keep up actual ‘files’ on the applications they receive – we mean files containing paper with writing on it – in stark contrast to telecom providers whose idea of customer relations is a kind of e-management that cleverly enables them not to know who they connected to what last week. At any rate, this is how it is in Germany. What do work however in Germany are wonderful easy-to-pronounce little things called “Registraturrichtlinien”, not to mention the “Geschäftsordnungen”, for which we have our Prussian forefathers to thank, principles of orderly official desk-work embodied and implemented by the state-accredited firm of Regis. These good people not only manufactured the paper and the files, but did so with a measure of good sense, organisational talent and mature intelligence that one has to admire. We hope we’ve convinced you…and all we’d like add at this point is that you, too, can make use of this wealth of experience by simply storing your more important documents in the containers that we will be describing below, and saying “NO” to the computer!

How things happened when you built or bought your house…

Those new window-frames 10 years ago – the lino in the scullery – what did that electrician charge? Question: where to put these isolated bits of completed correspondence that still might come in useful one day? Answer: this narrow, easy-to-carry file with its very stylish cover.

Office.

This time our range of writing instruments focuses on those for everyday use. We have a range of tried and tested pens and pencils, business and office products. As in other sections, we have increased the number of products in our own-brand range. Particularly interesting are the rather unusual note-books and leather fibre organiser and the pen roll made from chrome-tanned cowhide and chamois-tanned buckskin.

Organised Chaos.

There is no denying it - life has to be organised and it is man's fate to win or lose in the constant battle against Sod's Law. As the law implies, it is inevitable that the tax return form or the manuscript it has taken ages to complete end up in the waste paper basket. Introducing order into our lives is unnatural - as any stamp collector who was ever surprised by a gust of wind well knows. At the end of the day, those who acknowledge that organisation is in vain, will at least, be that little bit wiser. But we were supposed to be discussing files and card indexes, weren't we? They can assist modern office workers in their battle. Punched with two holes papers can at least be shielded from the forces of nature for a period of time. This does, however require a little effort which is not always popular. That is probably why so many people remain hidden behind huge piles of paperwork which they have to sort through regularly in order to find the document they were sure was there a moment ago.