#lap desk

[ltwilliammowett]

A scrimshawed lap desk, American, ca 1865

[etherealdreams1111]

I got a new lap desk for bed 😊

[hafanforever]

Check out this brand lap desk I got today! 😁😁😁

So I got the one pictured below more than a year ago after the film debuted, and it’s definitely among my prized possessions among my Frozen/Frozen II paraphernalia collection. 😉 But I use it every day when I sit on my bed with laptop on top of it in my lap that a few places were becoming slightly worn with the covering tearing off. I hated the thought of deteriorating so soon if I kept using it every day, so I went searching online to see if any other lap desks had been made for the movie.

And it was on eBay that I found the lap desk with Elsa and the Nokk, in which it was part of a set with a writing pad, eraser, sharpener, pencil, and two sticker sheets! 😁👍🏻 Although it’s not as long as my other one, it’s still very big, AND it has a much larger pillow underneath it, making it more elevated to make my laptop sit at a perfect level when I have it in my lap. 😉

[nerdismindecor]

Beauty and the Beast lap desk and notebook set found at Box Lunch.

[daguerreotype-era]

antique lap desk

[marzipanandminutiae]

so I know lap desks were used for writing on long journeys back in Ye Olden Days (of the 18th and 19th centuries), but my question is, where do you store the blamed thing in your luggage?

I’ve ogled many a lap desk in my years of antiquing, and while they may be smaller by far than an actual writing-desk, they’re still not small. nor light, particularly when stocked with pens, ink, paper, envelopes, sealing-wax, stamps, and all the other writing necessities of the age

were valises just really roomy back then? would you keep it in your trunk and only take it out at an inn or your destination? but wouldn’t those places already have at least a table to write on, barring the meanest of circumstances? I’m picturing it being used to write letters on a train or in a coach, but then you’d have to have it at hand and in your “carryon luggage,” so to speak

asking the real history questions right here

[bookmarksandbrushpens]

I took my writing lap desk out onto the roof to enjoy the leaves and the fall air. Day 25 of the October challenges by @journaling-junkie and @chatoyantquill Pen: Pilot Cavalier Ink: Diamine Oxblood Writing Sounds: passing cars and the wind

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