In 1945, a young German immigrant, Harold Mayer, came to New York from Frankfurt, Germany and began importing stationery products into the American market. On one of his overseas trips to Florence Italy, he forged a relationship with an Italian Artisan Family, and created, together with his counterpart Gino, a unique line of Florentine Brass Wax Seal Stamps, still sold in it’s original form today – and now considered “vintage”!

As the first company to introduce Sealing Wax and Wax Seal Stamps to the “modern” American Gift Market in the 1950s, the company expanded into the wholesale market with fine stationery products imported from Europe and Asia and began to successfully create, package and distribute to fine retail stores in the US and all over the world. The company ownership passed through two families, each of which had it’s owner grow with the company and learn the entrepreneurial spirit from the ground up.

A Family (and Women)-owned and run company since 1999, Monika (Mother -now retired)  and Janine (Daughter-now President & CEO) have proudly strived to continue our traditions, values and mission to bring Fine Quality Stationery Products to the American Market.

You can find our products in fine Paper & Gift Shops as well as Museum Stores around the world.