Talk:St Edward's Crown

Beads
Here is a quote from page 29 of The Coronation Ceremony and the Crown Jewels (1992): "The crown was permanently set with semi-precious stones for George V's coronation … In addition, the rows of imitation pearls were replaced with gold beads plated with platinum. The cost of Garrard's work on the crown, which included supplying a new velvet cap with ermine border, was £375." This explains why the picture of St Edward's Crown in The Crown Jewels of England (1919), published eight years after the coronation, appears to still have pearls – they were actually platinum-coated gold beads. I am unable to find a source which says the platinum coating was removed, but clearly, it was removed at some point, as we can all see by looking at photographs on the Royal Collection website. Firebrace (talk) 16:59, 23 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Then the text "the platinum has since been removed" should be replaced with something like "the platinum-plated gold beads have since been replaced by gold beads", since there's nothing about removing platinum, as though the platinum beads were stripped of their platinum, rather than being replaced by new beads. Dhtwiki (talk) 23:21, 23 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Hmm... unlikely, as the beads are welded onto the crown. Plating is just a few microns thick and rubs off quite easily. (A micron is 0.001 mm.) Rubbing off the platinum, and then polishing the gold, would have been much easier than replacing the beads with new ones. :) Firebrace (talk) 17:28, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

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