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Hallmarking Guide

As a business that specialises in buying and selling gold, fine jewellery and luxury watches, we often meet people that want to sell their gold items. In light of this, we carry out daily valuations on a huge range of individual items of jewellery. For those that are unsure as to how to tell genuine gold from fake gold, it can be a little trickier. While the best way to be sure of the authenticity of your gold is to bring it along and have it inspected by our experienced team, there are other tell-tale signs that should help you establish if your piece is the real deal. Many countries however, do have a hallmarking system. Until , a Hallmark had to include four compulsory marks. Since , this has reduced to three the date letter has become optional. The crown refers to gold and is an optional mark.

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JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Precious metals used in jewellery, cutlery and giftware are almost always an alloy of pure metal and another metal to give a piece of jewellery durability and flexibility. This means there is a huge opportunity for fraud within the industry - hallmarking is regarded as protection for jewellery buyers and suppliers because it ensures that jewellery items are genuine. At the four assay offices around the UK , every piece of hallmarked jewellery is independently tested and marked traditionally by a stamp, but more modern techniques involved a laser to assure that it conforms to the legal standards of purity for the respective metal.

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Are you wondering how to read gold identification marks on jewelry? Indeed, gold jewelry is one of the most beautiful and valuable precious metals known to man. However, with its massive value and price comes a challenge: how to avoid getting tricked out of your money when buying or selling gold pieces. In this guide, we will cover everything there is to know about identifying gold marks on jewelry and how to interpret them. Not all of them have to do with actual gold content — some are for vanity, for sentimental reasons, or for personalization. The most common gold markings, carat marks, simply state the purity of the gold.

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