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Stationery is a general name given to paper and office supplies such as envelopes, notepads, pens, pencils, erasers, greeting cards, paper clips, thumbtacks, staples, etc. Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon printing upon or packaging Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in Offices by Businesses and other organizations from private citizens to governments An envelope is a Packaging product usually made of flat planar material such as Paper or cardboard and designed to contain a flat object which in a postal-service A notebook (also notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, legal pad, etc A pen (Latin pinna, feather is a Writing instrument used to apply Ink to a surface usually Paper. A pencil is a Writing or Drawing instrument consisting of a thin stick of Pigment (usually Graphite, but can also be coloured pigment or An eraser or rubber is an article of Stationery that is used for removing Pencil and sometimes Pen writings A greeting card is an illustrated folded card featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment A paper clip (or sometimes paperclip) is a device which holds several sheets of Paper together by means of Pressure: it leaves the paper intact and The term "stationery" is frequently used to refer more specifically to paper used for written correspondence (usually decorated or personalized), sometimes with matching envelopes.

Originally the term "stationery" referred to all products sold by a stationer, whose name indicates that his book shop was on a fixed spot, usually near a university, and permanent, while medieval trading was mainly ambulant, by peddlers (including chapmen, who sold books) and others (such as farmers and craftsmen) at non-permanent markets such as fairs. A Chapman (plural chapmen) was an itinerant dealer or hawker in Early modern Britain. A fair is a gathering of people to display or trade produce or other goods to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated Carnival or Funfair entertainment It was a special of term used between the 13th and 15th centuries in the Manuscript culture. Manuscript culture refers to the development and use of the Manuscript as a means of storing and disseminating information until the age of Printing.

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  1. writing materials
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