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UK Assay Offices

UK Assay Offices play a vital role in maintaining trust and integrity within the jewellery industry, ensuring precious metal items meet legal standards through hallmarking. For jewellers, manufacturers, wholesalers and designers, their work is central to compliance and consumer confidence. Jewellery Focus covers developments at the UK’s Assay Offices, including regulatory updates, technological advancements in testing, and changes impacting the trade. Our reporting also explores how these institutions support the industry with guidance, innovation, and services that affect daily operations for professionals across the jewellery supply chain.

UK Assay Offices

UK Assay Offices play a vital role in maintaining trust and integrity within the jewellery industry, ensuring precious metal items meet legal standards through hallmarking. For jewellers, manufacturers, wholesalers and designers, their work is central to compliance and consumer confidence. Jewellery Focus covers developments at the UK’s Assay Offices, including regulatory updates, technological advancements in testing, and changes impacting the trade. Our reporting also explores how these institutions support the industry with guidance, innovation, and services that affect daily operations for professionals across the jewellery supply chain.

Hallmarking down 30% in May

The number of hallmarked pieces from the four UK Assay offices dropped 30% year on year in…

Hallmarking drops 24% in April

The number of items hallmarked in the UK from the four UK Assay Offices fell 24% in April…

Hallmarking drops 35.9% in March

The total number of items hallmarked by all four UK Assay Offices fell 35.9% in March 2023…

New Trustmark Scheme relaunched in March

The world’s first consumer online assurance scheme for the jewellery industry, the Trustmark…

Assay Offices approve new King Charles III coronation hallmark

The Assay Offices of the UK has announced the approval of a new hallmark for the coronation…

Hallmarking drops -15.8% in September

Hallmarking rises 13.1% in August

The total number of hallmarked pieces during August rose by 13.1% to 886,746, up from 784,…

Queen’s death sees return of Platinum Jubilee Mark

Sheffield Assay Office joins the NAJ

The Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office joins Created in the UK

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