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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 12-05-2000 11:34 AM
  
 I am assuming that this is of recent manufacture. Does the mark on the following item indicate that it was made in the USA? If it was made in the USA where is the Jensen factory located? IP: Logged |
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Janet Drucker Posts: 21 |
posted 12-05-2000 06:21 PM
Georg Jensen Inc. U.S.A. is not Georg Jensen silver. This silver was manufactured in the United States during the war, contracted by Frederik Lunning of the 667 Fifth Avenue Store in New York. Mr. Lunning was unable to get silver from Denmark during the war years and therefore engaged American silversmiths to make silver that looked like Georg Jensen - International Silver Co., La Paglia, De Matteo were the familiar names. This silver was sold in the retail store called Georg Jensen but is not Georg Jensen silver from Denmark. Janet Drucker IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 12-05-2000 06:29 PM
Thanks for the reply. I was thinking that the L P mark might have ment "Limited Partnership"  but now I would guess it is to indicate that it was made by La Paglia.IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 06-08-2001 09:07 AM
Here's curator Ulysses Dietz again, shirking office duties on a friday, and cruising through the Silver Salon. I happen to be fascinated by the Jensen USA thing, even tho' purists turn up their noses at it. I begged from a late Trustee a tea service, marked Jensen USA, that she purchased in NYC in 1946. It was made by Trinac Silversmiths in Brooklyn. It is clearly not Georg Jensen, but it is also very clearly "Jensenesque," and very chic. It looks sort of Puiforcat mated with Jensen, and the result is rather nice. William deMatteo was a New Jersey silversmith, and hence I collect his work--and have recently seen two of the famous "squash blossom" teasets by him, very closely approximating Jensen, but using deMatteo's characteristic calla-lily, rather than the Jensen buds. DeMatteo continued to make Jensen like silver well into the 1950s, but I'm not sure for whom. IP: Logged |
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