Little Black Telephone And Address Wafer Book in Panama

Smythson

£50

The definitive 'Little Black Book', this compact classic is reserved for coveted addresses, favourite table reservations, and those who belong firmly in your inner circle. Bound in supple Panama leather, it's sized to slip discreetly into a pocket or bag, featuring A-Z tabbed pages in our signature pale blue Featherweight paper, and finished with gilt edges. Black pocket address and telephone book bound in cross-grain lambskin. 96 leaves of gilt-edged, pale blue Featherweight paper Made in England Dimensions: W7 x H10.5cm / W3 x D4"

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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.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
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.