1930s Danish Just Andersen Art Deco Pewter Candlesticks - a Pair

Description

Set of two Danish Just Andersen art deco pewter andle holders produced by Just Andersen A/S in the 1930´s.

The … more Set of two Danish Just Andersen art deco pewter andle holders produced by Just Andersen A/S in the 1930´s.

The candle holders are in good vintage condition and marked with Just. Andersens triangle mark.

Just Andersen 1884-1943 was born in Godhavn on the Disko island, which is located on the west side of Greenland. His parents were inspector and probate manager in North Greenland. Just Andersens creative gene was quite obviously stimulated and developed during his childhood.

Through his parents' business he grew up with a view of the world, and in contact with researchers and explorers who were later famous and inscribed in the history of their exploration and records of Greenland among them the famous explorers Robert Edwin Peary and Knud Rasmussen. less