Celebration Marblehead Moves in on Essex Street

The former home of on Essex Street was crowded with customers over the weekend as residents attending stopped in to see what Celebration Marblehead was all about.

The family-owned business specializes in archival, custom, handmade family history books, albums, scrapbooks, journals and guest books, as well as deckled-edge Italian papers and custom family crests.

At a "soft opening" Friday night, co-owner Joan Lange said she hoped the passion for history shared by so many Marblehead residents would bode well for her business.

"Over a century of experience and creativity, this family business has created magic and preserved the memories of Presidents, heroes, dignitaries, luminaries of stage, screen, and the music world as well as many universities, museums and individuals with precious pieces of family history," Lange said in an email.

The business had spent 24 years in Boston's Faneuil Hall and is a division of Scribes Delight.

"Everything is handmade and customized with a leather and recycled leathers and is made with 100% sustainable, acid-free cotton pages and smyth-sewn," Lange said in the email. "The books the Lange ladies create are made to last over 100 years and are perfect presents for a wedding, anniversary, graduation, retirement, or bar or bat mitzvah."

Celebration Marblehead will be operationg at the Essex Street location through the end of the month.