Christian Heise a Copenhagen silversmith. listed from 1904 until his death in the 1930's. Heise as well as Georg Jensen and others specialized in a style called skonvirke, a style heavily influenced by the aesthetic and arts and craft movement, relying on organic forms, in complete contradiction to Pan-European and American gaudy styles. The standard would change to .830, which was used on early Georg Jensen pieces. The set contains:<br>
10. 8 1/16" place forks. 20.44 Troy ounces<br>
12 7" salad forks 18.22<br>
12 6 7/8" dessert spoons. 19.34<br>
12 5" teaspoons 6.59<br>
12 4 11/16". demitasse spoons. 5.08<br>
6 6 7/16" silver blade knives 4.98<br>
2. 5 9/16". soup spoons. 1.71<br>
4. 8 1/8" serving spoons 8.41<br>
1. 6 1/2" sugar sifter. 1.48<br>
2 7 1/8". gravy ladles. 4.00<br>
2. 9 3/16". round bowl servers. 4.44<br>
1 10 1/2" stuffing spoon 3.93<br>
1. 10 15/16" berry spoon. 4.05<br>
1. 9 1/2". salad spoon. 2.69<br>
1 9 3/8. salad fork. 2.70<br>
1. 8 7/16" hollow handle fish knife<br>
12 8 9/16" hollow handle place knives<br>
Total weight of all solid silver pieces is 108.06 Troy ounces. Solid silver blade butter knives are attached to hollow silver handles but contain no added non silver weight.
Condition
Good overall. Gotham soft cover zipper closure case included.