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Jens Hansen celebrate the 40th anniversary of a collection of designs - which have not been made or sold since Jens Hansen originally designed them - has been re-launched.

Nelson has its fingers in a lot of pies. It wants to be the sustainable city, the solar city, the heritage city and the arts city, says the mayor.

The area is becoming known for its woodworking, as well as ceramics and jewellery, including the studio of Jens Hansen jewellers, which helped put Nelson on the map as the place where a certain gold ring that featured in a certain movie was made.

Yes, I know you thought it was forged in the mines of Mordor, but it was actually in a little workshop just by the cathedral.

Jens Hansen Gold & Silversmith was very proud to be co-sponsor of 'The Sitting Room' at the Nelson Arts Festival for the 3rd year running.

The show was a sellout and more than 450 people had a fantastic time dancing to the eclectic musical picks of award winner music journalist Grant Smithies.

Mr Hansen said he was commissioned to make the trophy by the joint South African, New Zealand and Australian rugby board last November. About 200 hours of hammering, cutting, soldering and polishing later, the 49cm, 2.5kg trophy was last week sent to rugby headquarters in Wellington.