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Tuesday 14 February 2012 - London Designer Wedding ShowPiccolo Press had a very successful three days at the well run Designer Wedding Show in Battersea Park, quite the best show of its kind in the UK. We met many old friends and made some new ones. And it was good to see that people came to see us…
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Wednesday 1 February 2012 - Correspondence CardsSince Piccolo Press appeared in the FT Magazine issue of January 7th, we have inundated with requests for Correspondence Cards and lined tissue envelopes. These items of stationery are already a best seller and we have a gallery of cards within our “Personal” section on our web site. We have…
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Tuesday 31 January 2012 - London Designer Wedding Show: 10th - 12th February 2012Piccolo Press will once again be exhibiting at the London Designer Wedding Show, held in Battersea Park from Friday 10th - Sunday 12th February. This is the premier wedding show in the UK and the only one at which Piccolo Press exhibits. There will be the full range of our…
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Sunday 22 January 2012 - Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee - Special Invitations with Jubilee Logo.With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to celebrate this year, Piccolo Press has commissioned a special hand engraved steel die to print/diestamp the Jubilee Logo in burnished gold. (The die was hand engraved by an ex Engraver to the Bank of England) Piccolo Press is also able to produce the full…
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Monday 2 January 2012 - New YearBest wishes to all for New Year and 2012. Whilst we are answering you emails, the Press Room does not start again until Thursday 5th January. To show you what the Piccolo Printshop looks when put to bed for the holiday I have posted a picture of the general workshop,…
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Thursday 15 December 2011 - Lord Mayor’s Show - Invitation of the MonthI have chosen, as invitation card of the month, one we produced for Mr Dominic Reid, OBE, who was celebrating his role as Pagentmaster of the Lord Mayor’s Show for twenty years. An intricate die had to be hand engraved in steel, incorporating the Lord Mayor’s Carriage and Heraldic items. …
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Friday 2 December 2011 - Stunning Christmas CardPiccolo has recently diestamped a Christmas Card for the prestigeous “Carnegie Club” at Skibo Castle, in the North of Scotland. The design required two large hand steel engraved dies and was the most challenging and difficult job that Piccolo Press has ever attempted. The card was stamped onto a folded…
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Friday 28 October 2011 - PrintWeek Award 2011And so on Monday 24th October some 1000 persons from the UK Printing Industry were sitting down to dine at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. Piccolo Press had been notified that they had been short listed for a print award. Tim Honnor was seated at a table at the far end…
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Saturday 22 October 2011 - Print AwardsMonday 24th October sees the UK PrintWeek Awards Dinner in Grosvenor House, London. Here some 1600 people from the printing Industry will gather to see the judges pick the “Printers of the Year” for 2011. Piccolo Press has been earmarked as one of three finallists, throughout the UK, in “Social…
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Monday 12 September 2011 - Family WeddingThis is rather a late news item as my son Partrick Honnor got married to Marie-Claude Dionne, in Montreal on 2nd July. The invitations were letterpress printed in English and French and a special motif was designed by my team to incorporate the Scottish Thistle into the Fleur-de-lils. The Order…
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Monday 12 September 2011 - Designer Wedding ShowPiccolo Press will be exhibiting at the London Designer Wedding Show, in Battersea Park, from Friday 7th - Sunday 9th October. This is undoutably the best Wedding Show in the UK and the only one attended by Piccolo. We will be on Stand 240 and look forward to welcoming you.…
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Sunday 24 July 2011 - Diestamping Event at St Brides Library, Fleet StreetTim Honnor, Chairman of the British Engraved Stationery Association gave a talk on Wednesday 20th July, with slides and films, to over one hundred designers and print buyers, gathered at St Brides Printing Library in Fleet Street. The event was organised in conjunction with GF Smith, the prestigeous paper merchants,…
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Thursday 23 June 2011 - Scottish Open Golf Championships: 7th - 10th July 2011Piccolo Press is getting ready to show at the Scotish Open Golf Championship, taking place at Castle Stuart, just a few miles away from their printshop in Nairn. With a stand in the tented area, they will be exhibiting the printing that they have done for this beautiful new championship…
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Friday 10 June 2011 - Chief Printing Executive visits Piccolo Press - PRESS RELEASEPiccolo Press the prestigious and specialist printing company, based at Nairn in the Scottish Highlands, was visited today by Mr Michael Johnson, the outgoing Chief Executive of the British Printing Industries Federation. Mr Johnson, on his last visit in post, said it was entirely appropriate that he should end his…
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Tuesday 17 May 2011 - MCCTim Honnor, the founder and owner of Piccolo Press is an ardent cricket fan and one who is glued to his radio whenever there is a Test Match. Thus, he was particularly thrilled to be asked to diestamp and print some invitations for the MCC. He thinks that it is…
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Monday 4 April 2011 - Stationery for Liberty LondonPiccolo has recently completed a prestigeous order of engraved stationery for the exclusive store “Liberty London”. Creating hand engraved dies of some old images held by Liberty London, some stunning writing paper and gift stationery cards were created.
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