fancy goods

Once upon a time, Tiffany was the name of a person: Charles Lewis Tiffany, who, along with John B. Young, opened a “stationery and fancy goods store” on Broadway in 1837.

Tiffany’s roots date to 1837, when it started selling stationery and “fancy goods” in Manhattan.

It’s not just the fancy goods that they want, as some see it, but also the connection to modern life that such things represent.

Both, as it happens, were attributes prized by Charles Lewis Tiffany, who helped found a store that sold stationery and fancy goods in 1837 with a $1,000 grubstake from his father.

The stories he tells are Dickens's fancy goods, picked up while he tramped the streets.