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Hallmarking

Hallmarking is a cornerstone of the UK jewellery trade, ensuring the authenticity and quality of precious metal items through independent verification. For jewellers, manufacturers, and suppliers, staying up to date with hallmarking legislation, standards, and practices is essential to maintaining compliance and consumer trust. Jewellery Focus provides expert coverage on hallmarking, including updates from the UK’s assay offices, regulatory changes, innovations in testing, and insights into the role hallmarking plays in supporting the trade.

Hallmarking

Hallmarking is a cornerstone of the UK jewellery trade, ensuring the authenticity and quality of precious metal items through independent verification. For jewellers, manufacturers, and suppliers, staying up to date with hallmarking legislation, standards, and practices is essential to maintaining compliance and consumer trust. Jewellery Focus provides expert coverage on hallmarking, including updates from the UK’s assay offices, regulatory changes, innovations in testing, and insights into the role hallmarking plays in supporting the trade.

The luxury goods market is buoyant – it’s time to stop blaming the economy

When luxury goods giant LVMH announces that handbags and belts at £1000+ a piece are doing…

14ct gold surges 60% in June hallmarking figures

Rising hallmarking figures showed no signs of slowing in June with the four UK assay offices…

COMMENT: Rising hallmarking figures are great news but the party may be short-lived

By Scott Thompson, founder and CEO of Carat* There is growing evidence that many parts of…

London borough of Southwark wins Touchstone Award 2014

The British Hallmark Council and the four Assay Offices of the UK have announced the London…

That dodgy jeweller’s hallmarking comeuppance sends a useful message

The news that a Birmingham jeweller who flouted hallmarking rules and has been fined £25,000…

April hallmarking figures up by a fifth, 9ct gold up almost 50%

Figures released by The Birmingham Assay Office have revealed that the total number of…

Birmingham jeweller fined £25,000 for breach of Hallmarking Act

A Birmingham jeweller was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment earlier this week,…

Ground broken on new Birmingham Assay Office site

Birmingham Assay Office bosses joined members of their building project team to begin work…

FEATURE: The End of the Gold Rush

The gold price has stabilised, and the slump in gold hallmarking has bottomed out. And now…

The buying begins

It now seems that the upward trend for hallmarking figures is gaining strength.
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