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Meanwhile, we can offer sterling silver cufflinks and freshwater pearls, also handmade wallets which can be personalised.
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About Us
History of The LLBC by Charlotte Carver, Owner and Founder of The Little Leather Box Company
1985 - Dainty Freshwater Pearls from friends in the Far East prove popular with the girls in my office at Queen Charlotte's in Hammersmith
1989 - My first ‘Upstairs Downstairs Sale’ at home in Bedford Park - "A dazzling collection of creamy-white and fabulously coloured Freshwater Pearls from the Far East plus Fossil Stone Beads for Twisty Chokers in original colours - pacific blues, greens and corals, jungle, desert and spicey mixtures"!! Quite a craze - remember them?
1989-1990 - A few of us stallholders band together to form The Charity Fair Stallholders Association, soon renamed The Charity Fairs Association, then later, Shop to Give
1990 - I rebrand as Scheherazade: classic & colourful jewellery & leathergoods. Aspreys kindly introduces me to their former Hot Foiler (also working with Eximious and Smythsons)
1995 - Bill retires as a London lawyer and we move into newly rebuilt BC in his native Worcestershire (Good decision, I being a Warwickshire lass)
2010 - Scheherazade rebrands as The Little Leather Box Company. (Thanks to DD @hlhstyle and @heracashmere for that brainwave ;)
Until the end of 2018 - Charity fairs and house sales continue, when I am stallholder and also events organiser. And we continue to help many to get their present panic sorted!
2023 – Shop to Give previously The Charity Fairs Association closes, sadly, but ladies that lunch are dieting, and saving their pennies for mailorder presents... times they are a'changing...
2025 - And now, 40 years on, we are planning our retirement (more gardening, more art, more family and puppy time)
However, we are still open for business - but when it's gone, it's gone…
So you’ll know what to do, and you’ll know when to do it ;)
LIKE TO ACQUIRE THIS BUSINESS?
CONTACT US NOW...
All handmade leather boxes are currently out of stock.
However, sign up to our VIP list for more news soon.
Meanwhile, we can offer sterling silver cufflinks and freshwater pearls, also handmade wallets which can be personalised.
See How to Order
Ts&Cs apply
Before announcing our imminent retirement, this is what our About Us page said...
The Little Leather Box Company is owned and operated by Charlotte and Bill Carver.
We moved back home to Worcestershire in 1995 after 30 years in London.
We were originally known as Scheherazade of London, but rebranded to become The Little Leather Box Company in 2010. So now we do exactly what it says on the tin – or should that be the leather box?!
Charlotte has offered classic and colourful leather goods since 1988 (freshwater pearls since her Queen Charlotte's days 1985) so she really knows her stuff. (But don’t just take our word for it, for words of thanks from happy customers, see Comments.)
Our luxury real leather boxes are fairly traded and handmade for us by a Commonwealth cooperative that benefits directly from our sales. Using natural materials and age-old traditional skills, in our own contemporary colours and designs, they are unique in every way.
They’re then gold-blocked to order by hand in our own workshop here in Worcestershire by Bill Carver.
In today’s world, where so many goods and services are automated, we proudly offer a hands-on, personal service that prizes communication and attention to detail.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Oh and by the way, we are keen to stress that our leather boxes are individually handmade and hand-coloured by a Commonwealth co-operative which benefits directly from sales. That’s why we’re so pleased to have your support, as the more of our leather boxes we can deliver, the more work we can give to the people who make them, hugely helping them to improve their standard of living.
Our boxes are therefore not stamped out by machines, or covered with synthetic coatings that can disguise small defects sometimes found in all but top-quality leather. On account of the way they are made, occasional minor variations in colour or texture can occur, which only serves as a reminder that each box is individual and unique.
“I highly recommend these beautifully made boxes from this excellently run English Company.” - Louise Guinness, Wiltshire
