MARK OF H. HELWEG, AMSTERDAM, 1941

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(180) A Dutch silver flatware service, model 'Jensen'
MARK OF H. HELWEG, AMSTERDAM, 1941
Comprising: twelve table spoons; twelve table forks; twelve table knives with stainless steel blades; twelve dessert spoons, twelve dessert forks; twelve dessert knives with stainless steel blades; twelve fish forks and knives; twelve lobster forks; twelve oyster-forks; twelve fruit forks and knives with stainless steel blades; twelve pudding spoons; two large meat forks; a soupladle; two vegetable spoons; two sauce-ladles; a potato-spoon; a rice-spoon; a fish-slice and fork; a cake-slice; pair of game-scissors with steel cutting blades; a salad-spoon and fork, each with bone bowl; a pierced fruit spoon; a carving-fork and knife, each with steel top; two butter-knives; a pickle-spoon; two smaller two-pronged meatforks and an asparagus-server, all in original a red leather fitted case with five drawers, marked on back of stems
6984 gr. (without steel-topped items) (180)

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Lot Essay

The 'model Jensen' was first mentioned by the firm in 1928, in 1931 this model was named 'model 1931' and was made after a design from 1908 of the Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. The model was offered in a plain or a hammered version. See: B.J. van Benthem, Tafelzilver. De Amsterdamse zilversmeden Helweg 1753-1965, Zwolle, 1993, pp. 200-201, no. 270, illustrated.

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