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kveloso Posts: 14 Registered: May 2001	posted 06-19-2001 01:50 PM [01-0813] Are there any books available on other Danish silversmiths other than Georg Jensen? There is a lot of beautiful Danish silver around and no way for me to determine who the makers are. Thanks. IP: Logged
Janet Drucker Posts: 21 Registered: Sep 2000	posted 06-19-2001 08:19 PM For a start you could look in the bibliography of Georg Jensen: A Tradition of Splendid Silver and select a few listed title. I will try to put together a brief but essential list of books that might help identify Danish silversmiths. Janet Drucker IP: Logged
Janet Drucker Posts: 21 Registered: Sep 2000	posted 06-21-2001 09:34 AM Reply to locating marks of other Danish Silversmiths; Marks and Mongrams, The Decorative Arts 1880-1960 by Malcom Haslam; Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition by Elyse Zorn Karlin. These two books provide a wealth of the information you are looking for. Janet Drucker IP: Logged
kveloso Posts: 14 Registered: May 2001	posted 06-21-2001 01:01 PM Thank you so much for your help. IP: Logged
kveloso Posts: 14 Registered: May 2001	posted 06-21-2001 02:05 PM I tried to find the books you recommended but they are not available on Amazon or Collectorsbooks.com. Any recommendation as to where to buy these. I found your book on Jensen and will purchase that. The silversmith I most want to indentify has the initials CFH. It is a small C in the upper arch of the H and a small F inside the lower arch of the H. Thanks. IP: Logged
Janet Drucker Posts: 21 Registered: Sep 2000	posted 06-21-2001 08:11 PM Since you ordered the Jensen book you will find the mark you are looking to identify in the back- p 205,206, 207 will give you mark identifications which include CFHeise Assay Master 1904-1932. You might want to look at ourweb page www.druckerantiques.com and some other books on Danish silver are listed. Karlins book is a Schiffer book so you can purchase it through them. Hope this helps. Janet Drucker IP: Logged
Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 Registered: Apr 2000	posted 06-21-2001 08:14 PM Ginger Moro's European Designer Jewelry (Schiffer) also has a section on Danish jewelry, and it is not limited to Arts and Crafts period pieces. To look for used, and possibly cheaper, copies of the books, try Bibliofind. The "CFH" mark is, if I am not mistaken, the mark of an assay master, not a silversmith. I think the name was something like C. F. Heise, but I will try to double check. So the mark would appear on work by many smiths. You have probably seen pieces with this mark, the Danish silver mark (three castles), and another mark, which would have been the maker's mark. Hope this is useful. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 06-21-2001 09:50 PM This is the C F Heise, Assay Master mark: IP: Logged
kveloso Posts: 14 Registered: May 2001	posted 06-22-2001 12:48 PM Thanks everyone for your help. I am so glad to discover the Silver Forum. Everyone has been super helpful and friendly. IP: Logged
tag)ny unregistered	posted 07-24-2001 03:18 PM Christian Heise was a practising silversmith as well as the assay master. I don't know if his smithing years overlapped his assay office years, but I will try to find out. His maker's mark was the same as the assay mark so it is all very confusing. IP: Logged
Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 Registered: May 99	posted 07-25-2001 09:12 AM There were at least two silversmiths from Denmark, Just Anderson and A. Michelson, both of which set up shops or retail partnerships in New York City to try to compete with the great Jensen juggernaut. The Newark Museum bought pewter, bronze and silver pieces from Anderson in the 1920s; and bought two artist-designed pieces from Michelson in the 1940s. Needless to say, only Jensen has survived. Remember that Gorham brought Erik Magnussen to the US in the mid-1920s, probably to see if it could catch this rising interest in Danish modern silver (I defer to Janet on this); but Magnussen stuff never took off either. Americans seem to have wanted one name only, and it was Jensen. IP: Logged
Brent Posts: 1507 Registered: May 99	posted 07-25-2001 09:50 AM I wouldn't say that Just Andersen was a complete failure here. I have seen quite a few pieces of his pewter in various parts of the country. I have never seen any silver, though, and only one piece of bronze outside of high-end dealer stock. Pewter seems to have been more popular. Fortunately for us collectors, great pieces of non-Jensen Scandinavian metalwork can still be had at good prices, simply because most people know only Jensen. IP: Logged
william drucker Posts: 16 Registered: Jun 99	posted 07-25-2001 10:10 AM Perhaps one should not measure a silversmiths success by how much of an artists work we find in the marketplace. there are many skilled Danish silversmiths besides Jensen such as Eric Magnussen and others. Please refer to Jacob Thages book on Danish Silversmith for examples of there work. IP: Logged
kveloso Posts: 14 Registered: May 2001	posted 07-25-2001 04:46 PM Thanks for all your replies. It is super to know that Christian Heise was also a silversmith. Does anybody know if his silversmithing years and assaying years overlapped? IP: Logged
Janet Drucker Posts: 21 Registered: Sep 2000	posted 07-25-2001 05:52 PM About Just Andersen (1884-1943) was given his first opportunity to execute a large alter for the Catholic Church by Mogens Ballin. Andersen established his workshop in 1918 and produced beautiful gold jewelry, in his own style, designed as little sculpures like jewelry of the renaissance. Some of Johan Rohde's gold jewelry is similar to his. He also produced work in pewter, silver, and a metal alloy. These pieces in pewter and other metal found more favor in Sweden. IP: Logged
Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 Registered: Apr 2000	posted 07-25-2001 09:25 PM Some of the nicest Danish jewelry is "skonvirke" jewelry, which is the Arts and Crafts stuff of Denmark. I think the word means "aesthetic activity". The nicer pieces are large, and have an organic, often puffy look and are often set with semiprecious stones. Some pcs are handwrought, others machine stamped. Evald Nielsen, Bernard Hertz, Anton Nielsen, and Mogens Ballin made jewelry in this style. It is generally made of 830 or 826 silver, and dates to 1900 - 1920 for the most part. IP: Logged
ViviaB@aol.com unregistered	posted 08-12-2001 06:53 PM quote: Originally posted by kveloso: The silversmith I most want to identify has the initials CFH. It is a small C in the upper arch of the H and a small F inside the lower arch of the H. Hello, I'm not a member of the silver forum, but was searching, as you were, for the meaning of the hallmark "CFH." I was happy to learn along with you that that is an assayer's mark, but am left curious about the silver you have with that mark on it. I have several items from that era, beautiful art deco and nouveau patterns. But I've been unable to find the maker. Since the silverware was acquired over time, there are several different marks. I, too, could only find Georg Jensen info when trying to identify the other makers. I plan to buy a book, but in the meantime, can you satisfy my curiosity as to what you have? I'd be glad to reciprocate. Most of the pieces are silverware with a deco design that could be seen as two rows of two stylized eights each (88). Very, very cool deco. Best, Vivia IP: Logged

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