Notebook, Case and Pencil with Cipher of Queen Charlotte, 1765 Tortoiseshell, Gold, Diamonds The Royal Collection |
This notebook was made circa 1765 for George III’s wife, Queen Charlotte. The notebook is bound in a rigid tortoiseshell cover with extremely elaborate gold mounts and Queen Charlotte’s crowned cipher set in high-quality diamonds.
Curiously, the paper in the notebook was never used. This was more of a showpiece than it was meant to actually be used as a notebook. The point on the matching pencil is just as it was in 1765—showing no signs of use.
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