Fair Lawn, NJ - For as long as Tin Box Letters has been mailing stories, readers have been asking the same question: where is the tin box?
Now there is one. The company has released the Finch and Hawk Tin Box, a custom-made keepsake tin built to hold all 24 envelopes of its first story, Finch and Hawk: The Klondike Letters.
The name comes from the company's own legend. A collector named Norman Blackwell buys an old tin box at a garage sale outside Milwaukee and finds it stuffed with letters from 1897 by Elizabeth Byrd, a daredevil journalist, and Tom Hawk, a prospector in the Klondike. Blackwell decides to share their adventures with the world. Now the story arrives by mail, two envelopes a month, for a year.
"Almost from the first month, people wrote to us asking for a tin box," said Alona Umansky, co-founder of Tin Box Letters. "Fair enough. It's right there in our name. So we made one, and we made it the same way we make the letters, with the real Klondike in front of us the whole time."
An illustrated 1898 Klondike map on the lid
The lid carries an illustration of a real map of the Klondike goldfields, made in 1898. The story's title is embossed across it. The front shows a night camp on the trail. The sides carry the Chilkoot Pass, the steamship S.S. Islander, and an advertisement for Prospector's Necessities. Every panel is drawn in the style of an 1898 newspaper engraving, the same look readers already know from the clippings tucked into their envelopes.
Inside, all 24 envelopes stand upright, with room for everything they hold.
A home for the whole story
The tin is sold on its own or as part of the Finch and Hawk Gift Set, which adds a full year of letters, paid once, with nothing to renew. In the Gift Set, the tin and the first letter are mailed on the same day, the start date the giver picks at checkout. A free printable gift note means there is something to hand over on the day itself.
"You read a letter, you put it in the tin, you wait for the next one," said Umansky. "By the end of the year, the whole adventure is in one place, ready to be read again."
Readers already partway through the story can order the tin by itself. It holds whatever has arrived so far, with room for the rest. The letters have a track record as a gift, too. One verified buyer who gave them for Christmas wrote: "My mother in law is loving these. We got them as a Christmas gift and we hit the nail on the head."
Availability
The Finch and Hawk Tin Box and the Finch and Hawk Gift Set are available now at tinboxletters.com. Both ship to US addresses only.
Finch and Hawk: The Klondike Letters is also sold on its own, month by month or as a full year. Its 24 envelopes hold the characters' letters, diary pages, newspaper clippings and maps inspired by real period sources, plus optional light puzzles. A free online Story Companion covers the real history behind each chapter.
About Tin Box Letters
Tin Box Letters mails original historical adventures to readers. It is a historical letter subscription: each story is told through period-authentic letters, diary pages, newspaper clippings, maps and artifacts, delivered by mail. Its first story, Finch and Hawk: The Klondike Letters, is set during the 1897 to 1898 Klondike Gold Rush and unfolds across 24 illustrated envelopes mailed on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month. Tin Box Letters is a family-owned company in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, founded by Alona Umansky and Aleksey Linetskiy, award-winning creators of escape rooms, games and interactive stories.
Email: alona@tinboxletters.com
Media Contact
Name
Tin Box Letters
Contact name
Alona Umansky
Contact phone
(201) 254-5465
Contact address
PO Box 110
City
Fair Lawn
State
New Jersey
Zip
07410
Country
United States
Url
https://tinboxletters.com/
