Foil embossing personalisation typo - can it be saved?

[tenbob]

Am hoping a wise MNer has some niche knowledge and can help me!

For DH’s main present, I have bought him a beautiful leather item. The company had an offer to add embossed initials, so I thought it would be a nice touch

DH’s initials are one letter away from
being quite random 3 letter word, so I think when I added them to the online box, fucking autocorrect has done it’s magic and changed them to this word
I didn’t check the order confirmation properly, and have just taken the item out of it’s beautiful packaging for a quick look before wrapping and seen my mistake

So imagine instead of saying PBG, it now says PIG in big gold letters

I can wrap it in its current stage. He will see the funny side on Christmas Day.

But longer term, is there any way of getting it changed/corrected to the proper initial? Can the wrong letter be scratched off and re-done, and if so, where would I get this done? A cobbler? Or does it have to go back to the original manufacturer?

hellllllpppppp!

I’d just email the company you bought it from.

I have, but have received an automated response to say due to high volumes at Christmas, it will take up to 10 working days to respond

i just want to be able to tell DH that it’s a typo that will be fixed straight away so we can both laugh at it, rather than him thinking he has to carry around something with a random word

Could the correct initials be put on a small piece of leather and glued or stitched on top?
Where I work I have very fancy, custom made, archive filing boxes covered in linen with gold blocking.
The labels are gold embossed leather, but stuck on the boxes as needed. They look fine.
Every time I order a new label, at huge expense and they take ages, I live in fear of getting it wrong, so my sympathy to you!

I have used a gold sharpie to tweak a mistake like that. It's not ideal, but it's ok at a glance. I'd consider doing that while waiting to hear from the company.

Obviously it depends what letter needs changing. Easier to add the B curves to an I than to remove them, for example.

Ahhh great idea!

I think asking the original company to do the correct monogram on matching leather and then applying that over the offending word would work.
I feel your pain tho!

How much of a sense of humour does he have?

I'd probably keep it because it's hilarious 😆

My Mum once brought back a silly little (relevant to an in joke between them) holiday memento for my Stepdad when she'd been abroad with friends.

She had not remotely clocked that they were personalised with names on them until my Stepdad looked at it and said "Who's Roger?"

It quite clearly said ROGER on it and she hadn't even noticed. Now we all call him Roger.

That being said I ordered 100 save the date things for my wedding and accidentally put in the wrong year(!)

That was an expensive waste of money

That's hilarious! 🤣

Is this his only.present? If not, don't give it to him as is. See if a local cobbler can help and also ask the company if they can help. Patching it with new leather and the proper initials might work... but a beautiful leather item that has PIG embossed on it is no longer beautiful.

This reminds me of the year DBro was relying on his employer (oil company) to give him the usual personalised Christmas present - he has the sane initials as DM, and would always pass on the diary/pen/vase/Filofax/scarf etc with "XYZ" initials on. One year they splashed out with full names - DBro received a lovely leather journal with the full "Xavier Zephaniah" stamped across the front, and had to dash out on Christmas Eve lunchtime to find something for DM.