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.
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Jul- 2012 -2 JulyEvents
Birmingham wins Touchstone Award
Birmingham City Council has become the winner of the Touchstone Award presented by the British Hallmarking Council.
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Jun- 2012 -26 JuneEvents
Success for Birmingham Assay Office at Made Me Awards
The Birmingham Assay Office has achieved the accolade of being placed ‘runner up’ in the first Best Midlands Brands Awards.
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14 JuneCurrent Affairs
Hallmarking figures show improvement on last year
May 2012's hallmarking statistics show that the total number of units hallmarked by the four UK assay offices is up 7.6 per cent when compared to May 2011.
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11 JuneCurrent Affairs
Edinburgh Assay Office to launch online consumer assurance scheme
Edinburgh Assay Office will launch the jewellery industry's first consumer online assurance scheme –Assay Assured – on 12 June at the Jewellery Show in London.
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Apr- 2012 -30 AprilTrade Organisations
CIBJO releases special report ahead of congress
The World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) has issued a special report of the Precious Metals Commission, ahead of the 2012 CIBJO Congress taking place in Vicenza, Italy.
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25 AprilTrade Organisations
Stand-alone gold marks banned on bonded gold
The British Hallmarking Council (BHC) has recently announced a ban on stand-alone gold fineness marks on bonded gold articles, because they are "potentially confusing and misleading to UK consumers."
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Feb- 2012 -27 FebruaryTrade Organisations
Assay master calls for more hallmarking after jeweller trial
Sheffield assay master Ashley Carson has called for greater responsibility in the jewellery community after a Bradford jeweller was uncovered with 90 per cent of his stock not bearing a hallmark.
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8 FebruaryTrade Organisations
British Hallmarking Council appoints new chairman
The former chairman of the 238-year-old Sheffield Assay Office has been appointed to the organisation's governing body, the British Hallmarking Council.
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Jan- 2012 -23 JanuaryEvents
Goldsmiths’ Fair 2012 calls for UK designer-makers working in precious metals
The two-week Goldsmiths' Fair for professional silversmiths and jewellers, due to be held at Goldsmiths' Hall in London from 24 to 30 September 2012 (week one), and 2 to 7 October 2012 (week two), is now accepting applications from prospective exhibitors.
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Nov- 2011 -29 NovemberEvents
Scrap gold and silver course to begin in the New Year
Adding to its existing portfolio of education and training courses, the Birmingham Assay Office has announced the addition of a new course – Buying Scrap Gold and Silver. The one-day course is “designed for anyone who wishes to engage in buying scrap gold and silver from the public,” and will…
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