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- ↑ "Georg Jensen Inc Catalog: 1939-40". www.jensensilver.com.
- ↑ "Example in Expansion". Interiors: 40–43, 63–64. October 1942.
- ↑ "Just Lunning Dies; Led Georg Jensen". New York Times. August 12, 1965.
- ↑ "Jensen Enlarging its Fifth Ave. Store". New York Times. February 22, 1968.
- ↑ "Seilon Will Buy Jensen Chain". New York Times. September 7, 1968.
- ↑ "Georg Jensen Files for Reorganization". New York Times. July 19, 1978.
- ↑ Georg Jensen Inc. (1943). "Furniture section". Catalog 1944. pp. 54–55.
- ↑ Georg Jensen Inc. (1945). "Ceramics by Carol Janeway". Catalog 1946. pp. 30, 32–33.