Victorian Trading Company is my favorite mail order company of all time. I never had the pleasure of going in any of their retail shops. The merchandise was top quality and nearly impossible to find anywhere else. I never had a problem with an order and I ordered wholesale from them when I had my own store and loved selling their items. Victorian things will come back into popularity some day, but lovers like me, where will we buy it until then? Just like when Victorian Homes magazine and Victorian Papers went out of business, I'm broken-hearted about it.