Date Letters Although no longer compulsory, British hallmarks typically include a letter to indicate the year when a piece of silver was assayed. Generally the letter was changed annually until a complete alphabet had been used and then the cycle would begin again with an alteration to the style...
used to identify the year by looking at a chart such as the one featured below. The following photograph shows a very early Georgian Period hallmark, including a gold date stamp "a" representative of the year 1900 with an anchor for the Birmingham Assay Office and 375 stamp for 9ct Gold....
Check for hallmarks. These three tarnished rings passed the magnetic test - i.e. they were not magnetic. However, even though they were clearly handmade, only the tiger eye ring bore hallmarks. I magnified the view of the inside of the tiger eye ring band using my iPhone and saw these h...
Each spoon carries the maker's mark of Roberts and Belk but was assayed in a different one of the six assay offices active in Great Britain in 1960-1961 (London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Chester, Glasgow and Edinburgh). Price: £175.00 The lid of the box reads British Hallmarks and the...
Antiques Man Jailed over Fake Silver Con; Snuff Boxes Found with Counterfeit HallmarksAN antiques dealer who conned customers with fake silverware was today beginning a six months jail sentence.Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
A George IV Fiddle pattern tablespoonmade in the Cape of Good Hope, circa 1825 and carrying pseudo hallmarks associated with Lawrence Holme Twentyman (but no maker's mark punch),initialled{WAL} Price: The marks on this spoon are recorded along with the maker's mark of Lawrence Twentyman. ...