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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 9783660, member: 111&quot;]Heh, that &#039;someone&#039; is usually fairly reliable...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>WWII shut down the supply of silver from Denmark - bit short on time, so rather than go into the whole story of Jensen USA, will just link the Wikipedia entry, brief but basically correct.&nbsp; The Georg Jensen firm wasn&#039;t particularly happy about the American &#039;Jensen style&#039; production, lawsuits were filed, and &quot;Georg Jensen Inc., U.S.A.&quot; marked silver was not made after 1951.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Jensen_Inc._(New_York_City)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Jensen_Inc._(New_York_City)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Jensen_Inc._(New_York_City)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the 18th and 19th centuries these side-handled pans were used to warm brandy or mulled wines, but by the time yours was made in the mid 20th century, they were typically offered as pipkins or sauce dishes, personally, would consider the other piece an underplate since there&#039;s an indentation for the pan, but they were more often described as trays.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are similar &#039;pipkins&#039; with more traditional turned wood handles (would guess bakelite on yours), from a 1944 Jensen USA catalog, which offered no actual Georg Jensen pieces, though there may have been some older stock available in store:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484038[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This clip is from a 1948 Jensen USA catalog, though some Georg Jensen had started trickling into the US, and had appeared in&nbsp; &#039;47 catalog, none were shown in this one - they are 44.[D] and 45.[K], described as &#039;Sauce dish and tray&#039;:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484039[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And a 1949 magazine ad for similar:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484040[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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