A NUMEROUS STERLING SILVER CUTLERY "BERNADOTTE"

Description:

Sigvard Bernadotte for Georg Jensen, post 1945
The design by Sigvard Bernadotte circa 1939. Comprising 76 starter spoons, 39 starter forks, 92 dinner forks, 27 soup spoons, 97 fish knives, 80 fish forks, 18 lobster forks, 12 snail forks, 12 snail tongs, 23 sorbet spoons, 21 coffee spoons, 66 teaspoons, 41 demitasse spoons, 21 cake forks, 10 different serving spoons, 10 butter knives, 3 slicing forks, 3 sauce ladles, 1 soup ladle, 1 cake shovel, 6 fish serving spoons, 4 sugar tongs (total weight ca. 34.1kg.), as well as 68 starter knives, 86 menu knives, 12 caviar knives, 10 lobster tongs, 4 pieces of salad servers, 2 pieces of carving cutlery, 6 meat skewers with steel or horn parts (total weight ca. 15.29kg.). All pieces hallmarked STERLING DENMARK Georg Jensen in an oval of dots (1945-77). In various boxes. All pieces with signs of wear. All weights and quantities approximately!
Lit. Janet Drucker, Georg Jensen - A Tradition of Splendid Silver, 1997, p. 277