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Hallmarking Of Gold And Silver Jewellery

Hallmarking puzzles most people. They don'thalf a gram.This is to save costs -
know what the symbols stand for or whyhallmarking  can  be  expensive.
jewellery has to be hallmarked. When our
customers ask about hallmarked silver and weSo how do jewellers get a hallmark? Well ,
tell them that ours is "pure silver , 999you buy some silver or gold , make something
standard" they look puzzled because mostwith it and if the final piece is over 7.78
people assume that sterling silver is thegrams or whatever , you have to send it off
"ultimate" standard and can't understand thatto the Assay Office of your choice. In the UK
there are higher grades of silver thanyou can choose from London , Birmingham ,
sterling. We usually have to take down ourSheffield or Edinburgh. They are all
hallmarking poster and give a sermon onindependent and actively "tout" for business.
hallmarking!We deal with Birmingham but have had reps
from other Assay Offices visit us at Trade
Amazingly , hallmarking has been around sinceShows  and  try  to  charm  us...
early times. Edward 1 of England passed an
act in 1300 establishing sterling silver andYou have to register with an Assay Office and
making marks on each piece of jewellery withhave your own mark and leave your stamp with
a  punch  compulsory.them. In addition , every time you sell your
jewellery , even in a street market , you
So how can you tell if your jewellery ishave to display an Assay Office poster. It's
hallmarked? You'll probably need a magnifyingnot unknown for Trading Standards officials
glass like the ones you've seen jewellersto visit exhibitions to check your status and
with , stuck in their eyes as they closelysee  if  you  are  complying  with  the  act.
examine a piece of jewellery. If you can only
see a mark saying "925" then that's not aThe main thing to remember about the hallmark
hallmark in the UK. It's just a "controlis that the numbers (eg 925 ) are out of a
mark" put there by the manufacturers tothousand so the higher the number , the
indicate that they think it's sterlingbetter the grade of metal. With sterling
silver. But to comply with the law there hassilver , this means that 75 parts out of a
to be a mark made by the Assay Office. Inthousand is not silver - it is copper , which
the UK this will be a mark with 3 symbols :is added to make the pure silver easier to
firstly a mark (say 999 ) denoting the typework with by hardening it. Pure silver is
of metal and its quality , secondly thequite soft. Most of the silver we work with
maker's mark (ours is JC ) and finally theis 999 - fine pure silver which is quite a
year  of  marking.different colour to sterling silver because
there  is  nothing  added  to  it.
But even if there's no proper hallmark ,
don't worry! Your jewellery could be tooWith gold , much more base material is added.
light to be hallmarked. Most silver jewellery9 carat gold for instance is hallmarked 375
is very light - earrings , for instance. Ifbecause it is only 37.5% gold. 18 carat is
silver is less than 7.78 grams it doesn't75%. as you can imagine pure gold is very
have to be hallmarked. Gold less than 1 gramexpensive and you can see why it has to be
is exempt and with platinum it's less thandiluted!



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