So What Happened To The Regular Availability Of Monarch Sized Letterhead?

[CSG]

For as long as I can remember, Monarch letterhead (7.25 x 10.5") was the de facto standard for men's social and executive sized stationary. Bigger than a note card and smaller than A4, the business standard. It was almost always personalized with one's name on the sheet and one's address on the envelope. At least that's they way I always received it as a young man from my grandfather.

 

I went to find some online earlier and found that even Crane only carries a couple of examples of very expensive Monarch sized stationary. On ebay, I found a couple examples under *collectible* staionary.

 

What have I missed since the dawn of the digital age? Everything's note cards now. I'd like a 100 or so sheets of non-personalized Monarch, ideally in an ecru classic laid with watermark. Anyone have a good source for reasonably priced stuff (as well as an education as to why Monarch is no longer the standard it used to be?).

[BillZ]

This is what I use:

http://www.americanstationery.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=monarch

[CSG]

I had a *duh* senior moment when I realized that I could easily cut some of my existing watermarked A4 letter sheets to size with my guillotine paper trimmer. Cut about 20 sheets just a bit ago. Worked fine.

 

Of course, if I want it personalized, I'd have to run it though my printer.

Edited October 31, 2014 by CSG

[Lou Erickson]

All I can say is that everyone got tired of dealing with different sizes and have standardized on less. A4/A5 or US Letter size seems to have taken over the world.

 

My filing and scanning appreciates this. My laser printer does as well.

[Runnin_Ute]

I never appreciated the so called "Executive" size (190 x 254 mm or 7.5" x 10") as much as I probably should have in the past. But one can always make ones own....

[kazoolaw]

All I can say is that everyone got tired of dealing with different sizes...

Not everyone prefers stationery like everyone else's stationery.

 

Let's standardize to the same pen: so less fatiguing.

 

gary