Smythson x Peter Rabbit Soho Sketchbook in Panama

Smythson

£225

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. In honour of Beatrix Potter’s talent for illustration, our Panama leather-bound Soho sketchbook bears the mantra ‘One Must Always Draw’ gold-stamped across the front. Complete with a pencil to inspire your own masterpiece, each piece is lined with Beatrix Potter’s archival sketches. Nile blue Soho sketchbook bound in cross grain lambskin Silk line

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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.