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In this guide
The Note Sleeve is the Bellroy wallet most people mean when they say they own a Bellroy. It is a folding billfold with three slots on the inside face, a pull-tab pocket behind them for the cards you touch once a month, a full-height section for flat notes, and a small pocket for coins. Bellroy sells the leather version to UK addresses from its own site, with RFID shielding built in.
The UK price comes with a catch. Bellroy's site quotes US$95 for the Black leather model, item number WNSC-BLK-301, and checks out in US dollars with the United Kingdom chosen as the delivery country. Prices below are in US dollars and are not converted. The decision itself is the same as anywhere: capacity without bulk is only worth paying for if your carry has not already shrunk to a phone and two cards.
Our verdict
A well-specified billfold for a carry that includes notes and coins; the pull-tab layout stays slim only if you sort your cards honestly, and UK buyers pay Bellroy in US dollars.
- A good fit for
- Someone in the UK who carries five to eight cards plus notes and wants one wallet that also copes with taller foreign banknotes on trips.
- We would skip it if
- You pay by phone and carry three cards, you would rather buy in pounds, or you want the thinnest possible object in a front pocket.
Reasons to consider it
- Rated capacity of 4–11 cards with three quick-access slots and a pull-tab pocket
- Full-height note section takes flat notes of most currencies, pounds included, plus a coin pocket
- RFID shielding and a three-year warranty from the maker
The compromises
- At about 1 cm thick it is a billfold, not a cardholder, and pockets notice the difference
- The pull-tab pocket only stays convenient if the rarely used cards really are rarely used
- The composition is 70% leather, not all leather, and the brand does not name the tannery
What we have not verified: Bellroy's own site is the only UK way to buy found here, and it prices in US dollars, so the sterling cost depends on your card's exchange rate and fees. The product page says duties and taxes are included, yet checkout added US$19 of sales tax; nothing past that screen was checked. Leather break-in, pull-tab durability and the coin pocket under load are not covered by the sources.
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Note Sleeve · Premium Leather, Black
Three quick slots, a pull-tab pocket for the overflow, a note section that takes tall banknotes flat, and a coin pocket, all in a thin leather fold with RFID shielding.
Before you buy: It is thicker than a cardholder by design, the leather blend is 70% leather, and Bellroy settles UK orders in US dollars, not pounds.
Price checked 17 October 2026. Retailer prices can change.Three slots up front, the rest behind a pull tab
Bellroy rates the Note Sleeve for 4 to 11 cards. The number is honest only when read with the layout: three quick-access slots on the inside face are the daily cards, and everything else goes into a pocket behind them that you open by pulling a leather tab. The pull-tab pocket is where the sleeve gets its capacity, and it is also the part that turns into a stack you have to thumb through if you overfill it.
The note section runs the full height of the wallet, which is why it is taller than most billfolds at 4 by 3.6 inches (roughly 10.2 by 9.1 cm). Bellroy's own pitch is that tall currencies such as pounds and yen sit flat without folding, and that holds for the geometry. There is also a coin pocket. Coins are the one thing that will add visible thickness quickly.
Leather from LWG gold tanneries, mixed with recycled polyester
Bellroy describes the material line simply: leathers come only from tanneries rated gold by the Leather Working Group, and the listed composition of the wallet is 70% leather, 25% recycled polyester and 5% other materials. Bellroy does not say which parts are which, but a lining and an RFID layer account for a share of that polyester. Nobody should read 70% as a defect; it does mean the wallet is a layered build, not a single hide folded over.
The weight is 1.3 ounces (about 37 g) and the closed thickness is 0.4 inches (about 1 cm) before anything goes inside. Bellroy's site offers eight leather colours at the same US$95, from Black through Hazelnut, and a leather-alternative version in the brand's INNOVERA material at the same price. The RFID shielding is part of the leather edition rather than an upcharge.
US$95 on Bellroy's site, no pounds, three years of warranty
Bellroy's site does ship to the UK, but it does not switch to sterling. With the United Kingdom as the delivery country, the product page shows $95 and says duties and taxes are included, while checkout lists a $95 subtotal, Express delivery at no charge, US$19 of sales tax and a total of US$114. Those two statements do not obviously agree, so check the total on the checkout screen before you pay. Whatever the total, a UK card converts it at its own rate and may add a foreign-transaction fee.
Wallets sit in Bellroy's three-year warranty tier. Coverage is for faults in materials or workmanship under normal use, and the brand is explicit that a wallet packed so full the stitching is under constant strain is not normal use. For a wallet advertised at 11 cards, the rating is the ceiling. The warranty sits alongside the consumer protection in your home country, a claim needs proof of purchase and goes through email with photos, and Bellroy lists no separate UK terms. Change-of-mind returns are accepted within 30 days of delivery, but you pay the return postage.
Skip it if the phone already pays
The Note Sleeve is a good answer to a question fewer people ask each year. If your notes live in a phone app and your cards fit in a cardholder, a billfold with a coin pocket is thickness you will carry and never use. The wallet is at its best for someone who still handles cash weekly, travels with foreign notes, or needs eight cards on hand and wants them sorted into daily and occasional.
Also pass when a wallet has to stay flat under load. Two or three coins and a full pull-tab pocket will show in a trouser pocket, and Bellroy's own capacity warning suggests the brand knows how people fill these. Buy it for the layout, not for a slimness claim that depends on your discipline more than on the leather.
How we put this together
Built from the product pages and listings below, without test scores or results we have not measured. Specifications and prices change, so check the original page for the exact model, current price, delivery, and returns.
- Bellroy: Note Sleeve product page (opens in a new tab)
- Bellroy: Checkout (opens in a new tab)
- Bellroy: Product warranties (opens in a new tab)
- Bellroy: Returns & Exchanges (opens in a new tab)
- Bellroy: Shipping & Delivery (opens in a new tab)
