Ruination & Despair

Downs Engravers, one of our earliest wholesale customers, has closed, a victim of the bad economy. We direct its loyal former customers to nearby Copenhaver instead.

Alas, despite its popularity with White House staffers and other office workers in its vicinity, the Stephen Decatur House Museum Shop is not to survive the Museum’s conversion to a National Center for White House History, announced in January. The shop is therefore currently liquidating its entire inventory at highly favorable prices. By now little remains of its once impressive stock of Archelaus cards, but the intelligent bargain hunter can acquire the few it has left for just a dollar apiece.