Ruination & Despair

We regret to inform our readers that The Waygoose in Rockville has shuffled off this mortal coil. Fortunately, you can still purchase our fine cards at Waygoose Redux in Bethesda.

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.

We have just learned that Ron Henderson, founder of the excellent Washington card store Pulp, died on February 15, 2009. Ron was a remarkable person, full of life and humor, and we are grieved. He was the first retailer to agree to carry our cards, and we are enduringly grateful to him for the support and encouragement.