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Circa 1955, Mexico City, maker's mark "B" ( Bernice Godspeed ) ''Codan'' with Eagle ''7'' mark, further marked ''Sterling / 925 / Mexico'', comprising: a coffee pot (9.75'' H x 8.5'' W x 5'' D), a teapot (7.75'' H x 9.5'' W x 5'' D), a milk jug (5.5'' H x 5.5'' W x 3.5'' D), a covered sugar bowl (5.5'' H x 5.5'' W x 3.5'' D), and a waste bowl (2.25'' H x 3.5'' Dia.), designed in the Danish Modern style, each piece except waste bowl with teardrop-shaped bodies and covers topped with inverted cone-shaped finials, with Rosewood handles, 5 pcs, gross weight 80.215 oz troy.

Codan, S.A. was a silver house in Mexico City and created fine pieces in the Danish Modern tradition.

Bernice Goodspeed, American-born, settled in Mexico City in 1930 to complete her studies in cultural anthropology. While working as a guide to sites of antiquity, she met the Hungarian/American artist Carl Pappe and they were married in 1935. The couple settled in Taxco in 1938 where they opened a studio and gallery that sold pre-Columbian artifacts, as well as Carl's paintings and prints. Shortly after, the gallery began to offer silver jewelry and table ornaments designed and created by Goodspeed. She was active as a jeweler and silversmith until her death in 1971. Bernice Goodspeed also authored a number of books on Mexico and its native crafts, many illustrated with the artwork of Carl Pappe.