The Modern Gentleman's Blog

It’s a nerve-wracking off-season for NHL fans, with a labor agreement that expires in September and looms over the 2012-13 season. Keep the faith with Tokens and Icons game-used puck cufflinks. These sterling-silver cufflinks are accentuated with pieces of actual game-used pucks. (Yes, there’s a certificate of authenticity.) These are an ice-slick accessory for fans–tough to keep [...]

San Francisco’s Olympic Club hosts the US Open this week, and if history is any indication, it’s going to be an unpredictable and extremely difficult course for the contestants. Forbes magazine notes, “The U.S. Open has been contested at The Olympic Club 4 times previously (1955, 1966, 1987, 1998), and only 4 golfers total across those 4 tournaments finished the tournament [...]

We were browsing The Trades this morning when we saw this disconerting headline: TV Ratings: Rising ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Tops Stanley Cup Finals Interesting. Just to fill you in, here’s ESPN‘s breakdown of what you missed while you were watching talent show auditions: “Anze Kopitar scored a spectacular goal on a breakaway with [...]

A date nail is a nail with a year stamped on its head. The year is given in terms of the last 2 digits, e.g. ’41′ represents 1941. Date nails were driven into railroad dies, bridge timbers, utility poles, mine props, and other wooden structures for record keeping purposes. Most were made of steel and [...]

I consider myself a pretty big fan of cufflinks, and yet I only own about a dozen pair that I regularly wear. If I’m wearing a green coat, shirt, or tie, I have a nice pair of jade cufflinks. Bright blue is great for my lapis links. I have a favorite pair with some burnt [...]

Over the past year, many of our best selling gifts online and in our store have been from a company right across the bay from us, in Berkeley, California called Tokens & Icons. Essentially, they take authentic "stuff" and turn them into incredibly unique products: cufflinks, pens, lamps, wallets, bottle openers, and even furniture pieces. [...]

Having just bought some Ammonite* cufflinks at the SpiVey cufflink trunk show we hosted on Friday, I can say that it is very rare that I am impressed by a set of cufflinks. I would be awestruck by the cufflink line I want to produce, but that is a story for another blog. So you [...]