以上银标准标志（Standard Marks ），检测办标志（The Assay Office Mark ），鉴定日期（The Date Letter）和制造商标志（The Maker’s Mark ）四个构成了的英国银器的霍尔马克（hallmark）标志体系，自1544年后一直沿用至今。建立霍尔马克（hallmark）系统的目的是贵金属本身价值所在需建立统一标准，规范黄金白银工艺的...
一开始鉴定银器,同业公会的监管人直接去银匠们工作的作坊做鉴定和敲刻标记。后来演变成银匠们自己负责把需要鉴定的银器带去金匠大厅the hall,然后做鉴定Assaying和敲刻标记Marking,英文Hallmark便是这样的由来。直接的含义就是the mark of the hall大厅的标记。今天,silver hallmark就是银的标记。英国所有的银器都有silv...
• Maker: unidentified because it was carelessly over-stamped with the date letter •Additonal British examples Hallmark Head: A short, polished, cast metal mushroom-type stake that fits into a horse and is used for planishing and burnishing metal objects over. ...
Assay Office Marks The Sheffield Rose (formerly Crown) Used from the inception of the Assay Office in 1773 , the Crown was the town mark of Sheffield. Because of possible confusion with the Crown mark used after 1798 as the hallmark for 18ct gold the mark was changed on January 1st 1975 ...
Instead, they stamped the silver themselves with a maker's mark, a town mark or combinations of these and other marks. The hallmark of the Limerick silversmith Joseph Johns. Image courtesy of L&W Duvallier. Rarity dictates that Scottish/Irish provincial silver is highly collectable, most obviously...
Some jewellery also has a date letter showing the year the hallmark was made. Most Assay Offices provide information to help people figure out the year of the hallmark. Remember that some jewellery is tested and marked with a hallmark after it's been made. Typically, a jeweller submits a ...
For instance, sterling marked with a leopard head hallmark was made in London, while pieces with ananchor markwould have been produced in Birmingham, England. Each year was assigned a different letter, too, and when it was time to repeat the alphabet, a new font was used.Maker's marksbega...
Each mark or hallmark in our reference database is labeled with important and interesting information about the maker or its origin. Allmarksare also dated as to the specific years they were in use so that you can determine the age of your treasures easily and efficiently. ...
Although the layout and details of the hallmark and copyright marks on the back of this pin are very similar to those of Variant 9, this pin has a much deeper cut-out under Snoopy's left arm. Pins of this variant are known to have been flown on STS-63 (1995), STS-76 (1996), ST...
This was in Baltimore in 1814 and the marks used were the arms of the city (as a town mark), the head of Liberty (as a standard mark for an alloy of 11 parts silver or 91.66%) and a date letter changed annually. Although the post of assayer continued until 1853, the removal of ...