Customised egg-box stamps

Giving hens and ducks a chic shout out

For those who keep hens or ducks, presenting eggs to friends or even for sale in a recycled supermarket egg-box is a bit tatty – so Fraser & Parsley, a small online bespoke stationery company, has created the personalised egg-box stamp. A picture of a chicken or duck, with the names of the birds that laid the eggs and the farm or house name, can be ordered online in a choice of three fonts. A self-inking stamp (£35) comes in black, while a traditional wood-handled stamp (£28) comes without an inkpad so one can be more adventurous with colours. Both arrive in a pretty muslin bag, and so make natty presents.    

“The egg stamps have been our bestseller this year, and we have been floored and delighted at how many people are ordering them,” says co-founder Josie Parsley. “I really created them for my own benefit because I have chickens, am packaging obsessed, and thought it would look cool having a personalised label to say our eggs had been laid by our hens Hetty, Henrietta, Darth Vader and Biscuit.” (Suffice to say, her children named them.)

Fraser & Parsley recommend ordering plain egg boxes from Flytes of Fancy that come in a variety of bright colours. Their top tip for stamping? “Because the box is hollow, it’s a bit challenging to get a clear and even stamp, so I open the box up and put the top half on a hard surface, such as the bottom of a ramekin of the same height,” Parsley advises.

Time to get cracking.