A few days ago the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, reshuffled his cabinet. This kind of event is one of those rather rare occasions when you can see the government’s nice pen trays in the news.
I first noticed these pen trays when I watched the original House of Cards TV series from 1990. This led me to looking into this and I found out that the real life pen trays are very similar.
Have a look at Tony Blair’s cabinet table in 2001.
The highest resolution photo of the cabinet table I could find was from the Jewish Chronicle. Below is a magnification of the pen trays. The pencils look similar to the Shaws pencils used for voting in the UK. By the way, the Lamy Al-Star (or is it a Safari?) is not Theresa May’s but Hilda Worth’s.
If you want to see more of these pen trays, here they are…
…under Boris Johnson
…under David Cameron
…under Tony Blair
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That’s another item on your desk, isn’t it? What are you like?
It does like a bit like the one on my desk. The one on my desk is from Graf von Faber-Castell, from times long past when they were still affordable and it actually looks much more sophisticated than the one from No 10.
Very interesting! The red cases and binders used by the UK cabinet have long been an interest of mine (and I know I’m not alone).
Ah! I’m spotting a Safari on the picture from the pen trays during Mrs. May. Upon closer inspection it turns out that they are in fact pencil trays, not pen trays. Amazing.