Keepsakes
The album everyone wanted, made for everyone.
A family's photographs almost always come down to one album that nobody wants to give up. We digitize the whole collection as part of the work, then have a professional lab make a true copy for every heir who wants one. The original goes to a named keeper. Everyone else gets the same book in their hands. The argument tends to end there.
One for each heir
The heirloom album
$149 each, printed only if an heir wants one
A cloth-bound book, foil-stamped with the nine patch on the cover, built from the photographs we scan while we work. Not a folder of prints. A finished album a family is glad to keep on a shelf and hand down again.
Because it comes from the archive we already made, no scanning, uploading or laying-out ever falls on you. You tell us who wants a copy. Each one arrives the same.
- CoverBound cloth, foil-stamped nine patch, the name and dates beneath.
- BindingLies flat when open, so a photo can cross the spine without breaking.
- PagesThick archival stock that holds color and handling for decades.
- Made fromThe digitized collection, so the work is already done.
Why we make it this way
Plenty of services will sell a grieving family a print job. Three things make this different, and all three are the point.
It comes from the archive.
We already scanned the photographs to do the estate. The album is built from that, so nobody in the family scans, uploads or arranges anything.
Identical copies end the argument.
The fight was never really about the paper and glue. It was about the pictures. When every heir can hold the same complete book, most of the fight simply stops.
Color, not a black cover.
A life is worth more than a funeral typeface. The nine patch is bright on purpose. The book should feel like the person, not the day they died.
The picture is never cut in half.
A layflat binding opens all the way, so a wide photograph runs across both pages unbroken. The spread below shows it.
A representation. The colored blocks stand in for your photographs.
The whole account, on the shelf
The bound estate book
$129 each
The record itself, bound. The house as it was on the first day, the asset map, and a plain account of what was done and when. The digital record is always free to every heir. This is the permanent copy for the ones who want the whole story in one place they can hold.
Years later it answers the questions that come back: what was there, what it was worth, where it went, and who decided. Not from anyone's memory. From the book.
- CoverBound cloth in a quiet ink tone, foil-stamped nine patch.
- InsideThe walkthrough stills, the asset map, and the account of the settlement.
- PurposeThe record made permanent, so nobody has to take anybody's word later.
The small things, sent with care
The heirloom post
$12 per shipment, anywhere
Not everything an heir wants is a book. The pocket watch, the recipe card, the small thing that only matters to one person. When an heir flags it and it is theirs, we pack it well and send it, with a card that says where in the house it came from.
Distance stops being the reason someone goes without the one object they wanted.
Also from the archive
Once the photographs are scanned, they can become more than a screen. Available on request, quoted per piece.