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Smythson x Peter Rabbit Chelsea Notebook in Panama - Beatrix Potter Nile Blue

SmythsonMade in the UK

£125

To mark the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter, we’ve invited The World of Peter Rabbit™ to play across a collection of Smythson icons – celebrating a shared love for storytelling and the enduring charm of characters that have enchanted generations. Our classic Chelsea notebook is stamped with the famous opening to The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first penned by Beatrix Potter in an 1893 letter to a friend. Slim, portable, and bound in signature Panama leather, it’s filled with our gilt-edged Featherweight pages and finished with an archival 1920s woodland-print lining. Nile Blue Chelsea notebook b

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The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as FRANK SMYTHSON LIMITED, number 03594597. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Warehousing, Customer Service & Production - Swindon" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Made in the UK
The maker states: 4 leaves of gilt-edged, pale blue ruled Featherweight paper Made in England Dimensions:W11.2 x H16.7cm/W4.4 x H6.6" Source. Their words, not ours; we have not independently verified it.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.