The Queen's Piano

[ardcarp]

More to the point, does the music room have a green door?

That dates you Bryn...and me.

[Beef Oven!]

More to the point, does the music room have a green door?

Hilarious.

Some people are keen collectors of writing instruments and might find this very interesting. Sadly, not in this forum.

[Bryn]

Hilarious.

Some people are keen collectors of writing instruments and might find this very interesting. Sadly, not in this forum.

A sad lot who have not made a name for themselves as yet. Philately may get one nowhere, but at least it has a name.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There are online Fora for Stylophiles, and I'm sure that they will be able to identify the pen in question far more accurately than I can - but the Royal Warrant was given to Parker pens; first by the Queen in 1962, and then by the Heir Apparent in 1990. (JFK's preferred penmaker, too, apparently.)

[Bryn]

There are online Fora for Stylophiles, and I'm sure that they will be able to identify the pen in question far more accurately than I can - but the Royal Warrant was given to Parker pens; first by the Queen in 1962, and then by the Heir Apparent in 1990. (JFK's preferred penmaker, too, apparently.)

You are dressing that one up a bit.

[Beef Oven!]

There are online Fora for Stylophiles, and I'm sure that they will be able to identify the pen in question far more accurately than I can - but the Royal Warrant was given to Parker pens; first by the Queen in 1962, and then by the Heir Apparent in 1990. (JFK's preferred penmaker, too, apparently.)

Could be a Parker? Interesting. Amateur51 was into fountain pens, shame we won't have his view.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You are dressing that one up a bit.

[Constantbee]

Putting the piano to one side for a moment, does anyone know anything about the pen in front of Her Majesty?

Well spotted Looks like a tortoiseshell fountain pen, to me. If genuine, I don’t suppose the young royals will be very happy about it as they are sensitive about wild life conservation these days. Quite right too, imho I suppose the piano keys must be made of ivory, so that’s something else that might not be to their taste.

[vinteuil]

... I suppose the piano keys must be made of ivory, so that’s something else that might not be to their taste.

... those elephants died more than 150 years ago. Retrospective guilt is just silly.

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[Stunsworth]

I suppose the piano keys must be made of ivory, so that’s something else that might not be to their taste.

I don’t think good taste comes into it where that piano’s concerned. It looks like something Liberace would dismiss as being too gaudy.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well spotted Looks like a tortoiseshell fountain pen, to me.

If it is a Parker, then I suspect a black & gold Duofold - possibly even a "New Duofold" from the coronation year.

https://parkerpens.net/ukduofold.html

[ardcarp]

Well spotted Looks like a tortoiseshell fountain pen, to me. If genuine, I don’t suppose the young royals will be very happy about it as they are sensitive about wild life conservation these days. Quite right too, imho I suppose the piano keys must be made of ivory, so that’s something else that might not be to their taste.

From Wiki:


In 1973, the trade of tortoiseshell worldwide was banned under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species).[4] The material was already often imitated in stained horn,[5] plastic like cellulose acetate[6], and other materials, and this continues. The synthetic Delrin has been used especially for guitar picks.[7]

Brands of synthetic substitutes for tortoiseshell include Tortoloid and Tor-tis.

[Richard Tarleton]

they are sensitive about wild life conservation these days. I suppose the piano keys must be made of ivory, so that’s something else that might not be to their taste.

Not sensitive enough not to go shooting it, in Africa and elsewhere. I don't take anything the royals, old or young, say about conservation seriously, I'm afraid. William wants all the ivory objets in royal possession rooted out - as vints says, just silly.

[Stanfordian]

Not sensitive enough not to go shooting it, in Africa and elsewhere. I don't take anything the royals, old or young, say about conservation seriously, I'm afraid. William wants all the ivory objets in royal possession rooted out - as vints says, just silly.

I'm reminded of the carbon footprint the private jets used by that environmentalist campaigner Prince Charles.

[french frank]

Not just for show: