Questions

The head and the striking strip carry separate halves of the chemistry. The match only lights on the strip. It will not light on boots, walls, rings or raincoats, which is the point.

The splints are aspen, the paraffin is mineral, the compound is mineral. No animal products anywhere in the line, and the works beekeeper supplies the wax for the Mariner's Quota sleeve seal voluntarily and without a contract.

In a dry drawer, indefinitely. Heads take up moisture, so the enemy is a damp boat shed, not time. A soggy box dries out open, strip up, in a day.

Thursday to Sunday, tours at 11:00 and 14:00, free, up to twelve. See the visit page. The tea is included and is, in the family's settled opinion, the best on the shore.

No, and that is a design choice. The demonstration site shows the catalogue, not a shop. In the fiction, the works sells through six stockists and at the gate.

Every private plate is cut by hand. Archive plates are re-cut by hand when damaged. Tobias Venk is the fourth lithographer to hold the graver and treats it accordingly.

It is as real as the rest of the archive, which is to say fictional, dated 1938, and unexplained even here.

The Foreman's Dozen ships with a card the foreman signs each Friday. It began as stock control in 1948 and became, without anyone deciding, a small ritual of the trade.