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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 1367681, member: 111"]It is a lovely bracelet. Though it might be, the 'Sterling' mark is not necessarily an indicator of later production (and it's only a fairly small 26 year window, anyway), entirely possible that it was intended for sale to the American or British buyer, rather than a local market where .830 would be common, Lauritzen pieces can also occasionally be found in .800 silver (perhaps marketed to Germany, Italy, etc.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Though they'd used it along with .826 and .830 silver, as did other Danish makers (I have a few 1890s Danish spoons in sterling), Georg Jensen switched to <i>all</i> sterling production in 1927, using both 'Sterling' and '925S' marks, and made it very clear their reason was to appeal to a broader market, those customers more accustomed to a sterling standard. 'Sterling' also appears on fairly early Danish souvenir spoons, and if I recall correctly, Anton Michelsen used 'Sterling' on most, if not all, of their Christmas spoons, starting in 1910, as well on other items, as did numerous other silver makers. Danish silver was/is marked in a number of different ways, regardless of legislation...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Two Lauritzen .800 bracelets:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]221293[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]221294[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]221297[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]221295[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]221296[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]221298[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Same design in sterling:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]221299[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]221300[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 1367681, member: 111"]It is a lovely bracelet. Though it might be, the 'Sterling' mark is not necessarily an indicator of later production (and it's only a fairly small 26 year window, anyway), entirely possible that it was intended for sale to the American or British buyer, rather than a local market where .830 would be common, Lauritzen pieces can also occasionally be found in .800 silver (perhaps marketed to Germany, Italy, etc.) Though they'd used it along with .826 and .830 silver, as did other Danish makers (I have a few 1890s Danish spoons in sterling), Georg Jensen switched to [I]all[/I] sterling production in 1927, using both 'Sterling' and '925S' marks, and made it very clear their reason was to appeal to a broader market, those customers more accustomed to a sterling standard. 'Sterling' also appears on fairly early Danish souvenir spoons, and if I recall correctly, Anton Michelsen used 'Sterling' on most, if not all, of their Christmas spoons, starting in 1910, as well on other items, as did numerous other silver makers. Danish silver was/is marked in a number of different ways, regardless of legislation... [B]Two Lauritzen .800 bracelets:[/B] [ATTACH=full]221293[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]221294[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]221297[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]221295[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]221296[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]221298[/ATTACH] [B]Same design in sterling:[/B] [ATTACH=full]221299[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]221300[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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