Is there a twin for the resolute desk?
Just to add a bit on, you are partly right, as it has been said there were four desks actually made from the HMS Resolute. One ‘lady’s desk’, which was given to Henry Grinnell’s widow, Henry Grinnell was a New York merchant that funded one of the Franklin expeditions, just incase you didn’t know. There was also another desk made for the queens private yacht, and finally there were two ‘sister’ desks, notice I said sister, because you are right, they were not identical, just made from the same ship. One is, as i said, found in the white house, presented by Queen Victoria in 1880 to U.S President Rutherford B. Hayes, and used by all presidents except, Johnson, Nixon and Ford, and one was used in Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria’s desk is now displayed at The Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth, England. The Grinnell Desk is displayed at The New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library in Massachusetts. The Buckingham Palace desk is believed to be at Windsor Castle, but they were all known as
