Courtesy: Jewellery hall marking service, gold hallmark services United Kingdom The assay office marks – from left to right, the leopard’s head of London, the anchor of Birmingham, the Yorkshire rose of Sheffield, and the castle of Edinburgh. The assay office marks are no longer an indicator that an item was assayed in the city, or in the UK. Offshore hallmark used by Birmingham Assay Office’s subsidiary in […]
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Courtesy: Jewellery hall marking service, gold hallmark services Augmentations in France and England A set of hallmarks on an English silver spoon. From left to right, the maker’s mark of George Unite, the date letter (1889), the Birmingham Assay Office mark, the lion passant and the monarch’s head tax-mark
Courtesy: Jewellery hall marking service, gold hallmark services Ancient Byzantine hallmarks The control or inspection of precious metals was an ancient concept of examination and marking, by means of inspection stamps (punch marks). The use of hallmarks, at first on silver, has a long history dating back to the 4th century AD—there is evidence of […]
Courtesy: Jewellery hallmark service, gold hallmark services The testing of the jewelry as well as the marking is done in approved Assaying & Hallmarking Centres across the nation. These are private undertakings approved as well as monitored by the BIS. Legal status The mandatory status of hallmarking gold jewelry sold in India, although declared, is […]
Courtesy: Jewellery hallmarking service gold hallmark services The BIS Hallmark is a hallmarking system for gold as well as silver jewellery sold in India certifying the purity of the metal. It certifies that the piece of jewellery conforms to a set of standards laid by the Bureau of Indian Standards, the national standards organization of India. India is the second biggest market for gold and its jewellery. […]