Summary of article in Billed Bladet #39, 2019.
Written by Dorte Quist.
This is about some of the presents the DRF members have received or presented to each other.
Like this Nautilus-goblet/trophy which a gift of love from QMII to her husband and full of symbols.
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It was made by the goldsmith Torben Hardenberg and presented to PH in 1992 at their silver anniversary.
The shell itself is from a nautilus-octopus that QMII bought in Rome. The rest is made from gold, silver, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, lapis luzuli and red corals.
The goblet is standing on three legs, with wine grapes - a reference to Chateus de Cayx.
The edge of the shell is adorned with daisies - referring to QMII herself.
The hull is a replica of the hull of Dannebrog.
In front of the hull is a mermaid - a reference to the fairy tale by H. C. Andersen. The mermaid is holding a round brooch made from rubies and brilliants. - The circle symbolizing marriage.
The bow-spit of the hull is twisted - a reference to the narwhal tusk. Symbolizing Greenland.
When you press the brooch, a secret door opens at the bottom of the stairs to the rear, where two boys (Frederik and Joachim) are sitting. And inside is a drawer with a pair of cuff links.
There is even a dachshund.
What QMII did not know at the time, was the PH had approached the very same goldsmith for a present to his wife.
A chocker (I think it's called) a kind of necklace made from pearls and rubies. Seen in the second scan above.
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The necklace QMII is seen wearing here is a present from the Artisan Association. It contains all the seals and crests of the guilds and QMII wear this necklace every year, when the best newly graduated artisans are honored at Copenhagen Townhall.
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The brooch and earrings QMII is seen wearing here, are also a present from PH. Made again by the goldsmith, Torben Hardenberg.
The turquises were bought by PH in Egypt and the brooch depicts QMII and the Goddess of Hunt putting her arm around PH in the shape of a stag.
Their sons are depicted as two deer.
Below that are a set of cutlery in three shades of gold.
They are a present to the Regent Couple from Villum Kann Rasmussen, at their silver anniversary in 1992. It's made by silversmith Claus Bjerring.
It's made in 18 carats of gold, with an M and an H stamped on them.
QMII was asked prior to receiving the gift, whether she had any special requests. She responded that the knives must be able to cut. Meaning that they were to be used.
For QMII's eighteenth birthday she got a toilet-garniture set in silver.
Made by court-jeweller A Michelsen, they were the first in a series of "daisy-jewelry."
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This flower tiara, was an idea the goldsmith, Nicolai Appel, came up with.
It's made from gold mined in Greenland. (I understand the gold from that mine is very yellow.)
It's name is actually Naasut which means flowers in Greenlandic
It is made from hundreds of flowers picked from sixteen sorts, with the centerpiece being an arctic poppy, which QMII had seen to the far north in Greenland. It looks very delicate, but it's an unusual tough little flower, able to grow in the extreme climate there.
When all the many flowers had been made, QMII came to the goldsmith's workshop and arranged them in the pattern we see today on the tiara.
It was presented to QMII in 2012 as a present from the Greenlanders.
- All this can be admired at a current exhibition at Christiansborg.
- The scans to the rest of the magazine can be seen in the thread with Victoria and Daniel on official visit to DK, when I have completed the summary.