victorian

Victorian is a manufacturer of gifts and collectibles that mostly have designs from the Victorian Era. The company was established as Victorian Paper Company and as the name suggests, it manufactured paper in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1987, this firm was co-founded by Melissa and Randy Rolston. The company has been having an annual growth of over 30% for almost 14 years now. Their distribution and order branch is located in Lenexa, Kansas. The company entered the gifts and greeting cards market with its Victorian Greeting division based in US. Initially, this division sold only Victorian-themed fine correspondence papers, greeting cards, stickers and imported gift items.

The company also ventured in to representing major gift items across 6,000 stores and museum shops located in the North America as well as Japan. Today, Victorian operates in three divisions: Victorian Greetings, Victorian Papers and Victorian Trading Co. that imports and distributes gift and home products through direct mail catalogues and Internet. The collectibles are divided into different categories such as seasonal holidays, castle and cottage, nouveau Victorian, replica jewellery, romantic clothing, lamps and candles, windows and walls, replica furniture, Victorian paper, linen and lace. The leather doctor bag from Victorian is made from pigskin and brass hardware that give the bag a classic English look. The cookbook stand, another item in the series, is a decorative iron grid that serves as a book stand now, though it originally was a fire place vent in past.

The Bride’s Bowl was one of the prevalent wedding gifts from the Victorian Era and this bowl is these days used as a decorative bowl for keeping cashews and candies.