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 cutlery from Hong Kong.  In 1970, Trinity Tableware – which by then was the leading Hong Kong cutlery group – designed a 5-piece stainless steel Georgian tea set and sold 30,000 sets per month to Ensee.  The London firm was still trading in the 1970s; and possibly continued into the 1980s.