This firm was incorporated in 1948 as a London-based gold and silversmith and dealer in electro-plate and cutlery. Capital was £5,000; the subscribers were A. G. Maby and F. Williamson.
As the knife in the Hawley Collection shows, Ensee evidently sourced stainless cutlery from Sheffield. Stainless table knives, cutlery canteens, and, interestingly, palette knives with this firm’s name (and also marked ‘Sheffield’) are relatively common. However, by the 1970s Ensee was importing mass-market cu....