Via ebay I’ve acquired some more vintage stationery, four packs of it, all German-made and, according to the seller, dating back to the ’60s. Two of the packs are shown above. The one on the left with the floral design is unmarked bar for a small logotype on the back: Papier Elepa. The Edel Pergament (‘Noble Parchment’) has a different logo: a shield with a stylized ‘H’ made to resemble a pair of factory chimneys, and the text Rurpapier 1877, plus an inset in the shape of an envelope with the word Club on it.

Opening up the Elepa folder one sees a pad of green paper about 252mm x 175mm, so roughly B5 size, and some matching envelopes and notecards. The paper and envelopes alike have a grid pattern on the surface which one can’t see very well in this small picture. There are no watermarks. The envelopes are tissue-lined in a darker shade of green. Some on-line searching suggests that the manufacturer was the Stuttgart-based Briefumschlag- und Papierausstattungsfabrik Eugen Lemppenau, who seem to have origins going back to 1860.

Inside the Edel Pergament folder there are folded sheets of white, scallop-edged A4 paper, and C6 envelopes lined with grey tissue. Again there are no watermarks. I’ve not been able to find out anything about the manufacturer. The other two packs in my purchase were both Papier Elepa productions in which the paper is watermarked. One set has a floral design printed on one corner of each sheet of paper; whereas the other, which has Rhodos (‘Rhodes’) on its cover, has designs of a Greek island scene printed in blue and yellow on the linings of its envelopes.