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.
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Jan- 2014 -14 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
BAO announce 1.9% decline in hallmarking
Hallmarking has dropped 1.9 per cent on last year according to The Birmingham Assay Office 2013 hallmarking figures. The decline, compared to figures for 2012, show that the four UK Assay Offices hallmarked 9,156,858 articles in 2013 compared to 9,331,451 the previous year. This slight drop however is an improvement…
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Oct- 2013 -11 OctoberEconomy
Hallmarking shows growth in September
The Birmingham Assay Office has joined the chorus of statistics showing recent growth in hallmarking, with figures that show total number of items hallmarked at all four UK assay offices have risen by 9.8 per cent since September last year. The biggest year-on-year growth was in 14 carat gold, which…
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Nov- 2012 -28 NovemberTrade Organisations
Birmingham City Council presented with hallmarking’s Touchstone award for second time
Birmingham City Council was recently re-presented with the British Hallmarking Council’s (BHC) award for Trading Standards, in respect of hallmarking.
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Jul- 2012 -20 JulyTrade Organisations
Irish jewellers face penalties if they trade without a dealers’ notice
The Edinburgh Assay Office has seen an increase in demand from its UK customers to hallmark articles that normally fall below the UK exemption rates due to legislative changes in Ireland.
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Jul- 2011 -7 JulyUncategorized
New hallmark kicks off Diamond Jubilee celebrations
The British jewellery and precious metals industries celebrated in style yesterday at a glittering event to launch the commemorative hallmark for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
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