What is x-ray fluorescence testing?
The change in the UK jewellery market during the past 15 years has been dramatic and irreversible. Items made outside the UK now outnumber UK manufactured articles by about nine ...
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Latest hallmarking figures released by Birmingham Assay Office
The Birmingham Assay Office has released the latest hallmarking figures.
Birmingham Assay Office set to appoint Doug Henry as new CEO
The Birmingham Assay Office (BAO) has announced the appointment of Doug Henry as its chief executive and assay master. The news comes after incumbent Stella Layton announced she would leave ...
Birmingham Assay Office CEO to step down next year
The Birmingham Assay Office (BAO) has announced that its CEO and assay master, Stella Layton, is to leave the role at the end of March 2017. The BAO also announced ...
UK jewellers consider legal challenge to BAO over Indian hallmarking
A group of jewellers and silversmiths in the UK are considering a legal challenge to the Birmingham Assay Office over its practice of using UK hallmarking overseas. The news comes ...
BCU teams with Birmingham Assay Office for gemmology hub
The Birmingham Assay Office has announced a new collaborative tenancy and partnership with Birmingham City University’s (BCU) School of Jewellery. As part of the agreement the university’s gemmology department will ...
Birmingham Assay Office opens doors to new headquarters
The Birmingham Assay Office has officially opened its new purpose-built headquarters in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. After 137 years based in its previous headquarters in Birmingham’s Newhall Street, the assay office ...
Birmingham Assay Office launches historical Assay Archives online
The Birmingham Assay Office has launched its Assay Archives online, showcasing its historical silver, coin and library collections to the wider public. After receiving a grant from the Heritage Lottery ...
Marked feature bricks laid in new BAO premises
The new premises currently being constructed for the Birmingham Assay Office this weekend saw the addition of several 'feature bricks', bearing key hallmarking symbols used during the office's 240 years ...
Birmingham Assay Office’s ‘Analytical Laboratory’ rebrands
The Birmingham Assay Office (BAO) has rebranded its Analytical Laboratory as AnchorCert Analytical. The BAO said that the rebrand is due to the scope of its services expanding “enormously”. Originally ...
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