if you don't mind an off-topic post, my favorite photo from Hardy Brothers, Alnwick, c. 1910, bench-making fly reels.
These hard-working artisans left their initials for posterity - it was a means to keep up with their workpieces through the many finishing steps
It's ironic these gentlemen never got to use this stuff - they were making leisure-time wares literally for a different class of people.
By appointment to HM King George V, and HRH Prince of Wales
ps, I have a 1937 Hardy Hardex spinning reel (terrible design) with a curious mandate crest -
by appointment to HRH the Late King George V.
It was politics, no one wanted to be associated with George VI after Edward's abdication. Fact is, if Edward had remained king, he would have sided with the Nazis, which he did in exile.