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Meka denmark history Continue 235.00Danish sterling silver enamel seasoning set consisting of pepper pot, salt cellar and salt spoon. Made by Meka Reklamegaver Holte in Denmark, which is known to have worked between 1951 and 1989.The pepper pot has enamel panels both front and back, in very good order just a very small loss of enamel on one pepper panel (very minor) Pepper costs 53 mm in height (5.3 cm), a salt cellar measures 49 mm in diameter (4.9 cm) and a spoon measure 61 mm in length (6.1 cm). Description Additional danish sterling silver enamel seasoning set consisting of pepper pot, salt cellar and salt spoon. Made by Meka Reklamegaver Holte in Denmark, which is known to have worked between 1951 and 1989.The pepper pot has an enamel panel like the front, well at the back, in a very good order just a very small loss of enamel to one panel of pepper (very minor)Pepper costs 53mm high (5.3cm), a salt cellar measures 49mm in diameter (4.9cm) and measures a spoon 61mm long (6.1cm) DATE1951-1989 WEIGHT (Grammes)54.2WEIGHT (Troy)........ REF:-418F DENMARK AAGAARD, Jens Johannes (JAa) Modern Danish Silver, founded in 1946 in Svendborg and developed a wide range of quality products that are found in all jewelry stores in Denmark. The company acquired N.E.From in the 1990s, and with it one of their young designers, Lasse Larke, who became Aagaard's chief designer. One of his most successful creations was Connections, with its click and twisting the clasp mechanism. The company also developed the Lovelinks bead jewelry brand, which was sold worldwide to mid-twentieth-century Danish silversmiths based in Randers, a market town in Jutland, Denmark. The seminar was held from 1949 to 1990. Aarre and Krogh became known for their very distinctive jewelry style, the most popular of which was stylized foliage and flowers, often with cat skins. The craftsmanship and quality of A q K jewelry is nothing special, and their work continues to be popular today among silver jewelry collectors. ANDERSEN, Just A Just Andersen began making jewelry in his workshop in 1918, receiving a kickstart from Mogens Ballin with a 3-year project to decorate the altar in Copenhagen. He produced beautiful curly sculptures made of gold as jewelry, but they were of course very expensive, and so he also started working in silver and pewter and Disko, an alloy that he discovered himself. His pewter hollow from this period commands very high prices today. In the late 1920s, Just Andersen began to move from individual unicameral parts to a more streamlined production method, collaborating with a Swedish jeweler and introducing inspired by the simple forms of Scandinavian Scandinavian Jewelry. (Source: Jakob Tij, Danish Jewelry, 1990) Just Andersen died in 1943, but his workshop continued under the guidance of his widow and Ellen Schlanbush (1902-2005), who worked for the company for a total of 50 years, and who became artistic director. Karen Strand, Arie Grigst and Jane Viberg were students in the post-war period. The company closed in 1973. (Source: Vibeke Marsso) BAHNER, Volmer (VB) Volmer Bachner was Denmark's best known specialist enamel company, and was registered from 1962 to 1988. The designs are innovative, especially in beautiful guillotine enamel floral pieces such as feces lily, which was made in several colors including a row of blues, white and deep red. This design was used for brooches, earrings, bracelets and even necklaces. But Bachner also produced simple, non-portable Art Deco projects. Above all, the most instantly identifiable Volmer Bachner designs his heart and animal motifs, including fish and butterflies. They were also made in different configurations and for different parts of the body! Many of them have been specially designed as gifts for young girls, and so rings, bracelets and necklaces are often quite small in size. However, they can be extended by any competent jeweler, as they were usually collected with simple jump rings. Bachner's sign is his initials VB, accompanied by STERLING, DENMARK His work is sometimes also associated with CHRISTGAU, and can carry this sign. BERG, A.P.P.Berg was active from 1958 to 1983 in Assen on Funen Island. I haven't been able to identify this manufacturer for several years as jewelry (mostly cufflinks) is marked only with a curly logo. But the client pointed out to me that Berg's popular candlesticks (of which I own a couple) are marked with both the same logo and Berg's name. Mystery solved. Berg also made a number of popular flat series. BISGAARD , Palle (P.Bis) A famous and highly regarded Danish modernist silversmith who opened his workshop in Kirk Hyllinge, a village outside Roskilde in the 1950s. He still lives there. BRADRENE BJERRING (Brdr.Bj) The Bjerring brothers held their workshop in Copenhagen from 1962 to 1988. Their production was characterized by attention to detail, accessibility without compromising quality and a wide variety of innovative modernist designs. Many of these designs included semi-precious stones, both in pendants, brooches and rings. BRADRINE BJORKLUND (Brdr.B) The company's plays are highly regarded not only for their innovative design, but also because it existed only for 10 years, from 1961 to 1971 BLUITGEN, Ib (IB) Ib Bluitgen, born in 1921, studied as a silversmith at Silversmithy Georg Jensen, and also studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, sculptures from 1945 to 1948. He worked in Georg Jensen's design department from 1948 to 1962, becoming head of the department in 1950. Bluitgen opened its own studio in 1961 and was one of the founders of the Danish Crafts Council. Bluitgen's works have been exhibited throughout Europe and North America and were part of the recent exhibition Dansk Solv 2000 at the Kolda Museum in Coldying, Denmark. Bluitgen received awards at Milan Triennale in 1954 and the Statens Kunstfornd Award in 1976. In 2007, he was awarded the coveted Carl Gustav Hansen Award. C. BRUMBERG HANSEN (CBH) C. Brumberg Hansen, whose workshop in Copenhagen was registered from 1937 to 1987 M.P.CHRISTOFFERSEN (MPC) 1971 CARL M COHR (CmC) World famous silver company, founded in 1860 in the city of Fredericia on the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark. In the first half of the twentieth century, the company was best known for cutlery (flat utensils) and hollow products, and to a lesser extent jewelry. It was so large that it had several hundred employees, and provided apprenticeships for many famous silversmiths, such as Hans Hansen and much later, Bent Knudsen. The company was incorporated in Frederickia until 1987. The ERIK DENNUNG Dennung workshop in Copenhagen was first registered in 1974, and the store on Frederixberg did not close until 2016, run by his son Stan after Eric's death at the age of 82 in 2007. Dennung's career combined his jewelry production with a star as a footballer and then as a coach. Much of Dennung's work is bold, in the so-called Brutalist style, and requires a lot of material, so he tends to use a silver plate over the base metal eiler and MARL'E (E'M) Famous silversmiths are active during the first half of the 20th century, registered from 1920 to 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. One (or both) of the two name brands is used, as well as the umenable design, many of which are art deco or functionalist in style. ALGOTH HR. ENEVOLDSEN (ALE) Algot Chr. Enevoldsen, first registered in Copenhagen in 1950, produced high-quality modernist jewelry. Per Enevoldsen (son?) has developed the concept of Pandora beads, which is now one of the largest jewelry brands in the world. EINER FEHRN (EF) High-quality Danish silversmith, based in Copenhagen, was founded in 1933. Fehrn specializes in the production of amber jewelry. He also founded Amber House outlets, which are now well represented internationally, especially in China. Amber is found in several regions of the world, but the most expensive source is the Baltic region and the west coast of Denmark. FLORA DANICA In 1953 Eggert was inspired to create shapes from herbs and flowers of his garden and turn them into jewelry, layering a silver base with 18 ct gold. The company will still be strong, and now now its designs are both in gold and silver. The S.CHRISTIAN FOGH seminar in Copenhagen was registered from 1947 to 1973. NIELS ERIK FROM, DENMARK Nils Eric Iz was born in Denmark in 1908 and trained as a silversmith. He opened a shop in 1931, from which he also sold some of his designs, but N.E.From The Cousins was first registered in Naxkov in 1944. His son-in-law, Hilmer Jensen, joined the management team in 1960, and in 1986, after the death of Nils Eric, he joined the company. The company was liquidated a few years later. There are two different styles in the production. The blue foliage and floral figures were designed by Nils Eric From and characterize the early years of production, while bold modernist works were introduced by another designer in the 1960s. There are also a number of signatures used by the company. Smaller pieces can be simply marked from. Others have N.E.ART, STERLING, DENMARK, 925s squared, and finally many parts carry N.E.From signature in a page scenario. The company's products were extensive and its work was exported worldwide in the 1960s and 70s. Affordability is now increasingly limited and prices are rising accordingly as collectors warm to these modern classics.