Emma Pierson (Fanny Dorrit) wearing Papilionaceous.

Papilionaceous have been weaving luxurious jacquard silk facings for Albert Thurston – Limited Edition braces for over fifteen years.

An illustrated listing of all of those designs is in the Albert Thurston index

“Geisha” after the original woodblock print by Eizan, Kikukawa

ref #B1341

Our bookmarks are hand made from silk ribbon in Dartmouth, Devon.

They are double sided (same back and front except where stated) and packed in a protective sleeve.

Approximate size:
4 x 18 cm excluding packaging
8 x 19 cm including packaging

The Bookmarks ~ Index shows the full selection of our current designs that are available to purchase individually.

It seems that every once in a while Amazon has these direct at £135.

At 10.20 AM on 24.01.12 the best price of £189.99 is for a used unit.

At the same time, the best price new is £226.90, but this is the best price shown on the detail page. Go through to other buying options and the best price is actually £208.99 + £5.10 delivery.

There are reasons behind what Amazon displays as the best price on the product detail page at any given time, but the thing I think we can be sure of is that if it is Amazon offering the best price then that is the one we will see.

Edit: During the course of typing the two paragraphs above the price has already changed twice!

The very highly regarded AT33PTG/II unfortunately isn’t available in the UK. But it is available to the UK from Japan via Amazon in the US – go figure as they say.

As of 18.1.12 $573.00 (incl. p+p) is around £372, to which duties and ‘handling fees’ may well be added.

On 24.1.12 $573.00 = £382.31 using the Amazon currency converter, 1 USD = 0.6672134752 GBP which is actually the price payable if ordered at that time. Alternatively the buyer can pay the dollar price and rely on their credit card company’s exchange rate at time of transaction.

update 22.2.12 at least two of the sellers in Japan didn’t actually have this cart in stock, one has since stopped listing it. The dollar price has also gone up to $648.00

In comparison there are three sellers offering the same cartridge on ebay, also shipping from Japan.
Of the two cheapest, one is priced at $594.00 which is given as approximately £380.89 (though the ebay currency converter has 1.00 USD = 0.643523 GBP) and has free shipping; the actual price paid would depend on payment method and the rate used by that method. The second cheapest is quoted in GBP at £427.50 + £15 p+p

22.2.12: current cheapest on ebay: £369.95 incl. shipping from Hong Kong

All of the above is as I understand the policies of the two sites, obviously please check for yourself before buying anything!

By contrast the OC9/III is readily available in the UK for £549, or as low as £460.00 if you know where to look.

$639.00 is around £415 at time of writing.