The first silver hallmarking was confined to Goldsmiths’ Hall in London but in time other assay offices were opened. Today there are still offices in Edinburgh, where hallmarking has been regulated since the 15th century, and in Birmingham and Sheffield, where assay offices were established by ...
The leftmost hallmark is the maker's.The lion passant (walking lion) is the standard hallmark for certified sterling silver (925/1000). The anchor hallmark denotes this wasassayed in Birmingham. The capital letter D in cursive indicates the year, 1978. There was a legal requirement to usedat...
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....
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...
A George V copyofan apostle spoonwith St. Nicholas finial and inscription byLevi and Salaman Birmingham 1911in theoriginal box(withretailers stamp for C. E. Court of Ulvaston on the base). Price: In 1953 Commander and Mrs. How described the original spoon made in London in 1528, from ...
An over-and-under turn-over percussion pocket pistol with blued turn-off barrel, signed, scroll engraved action, thumbpiece safety-catch, racaur silver escutcheon, and chequered walnut butt, signed CLARKE, LEICESTER, Birmingham proof marks, mid-19th century; and a Belgian six-shot pin-fire revo...
around each muzzle, case-hardened action engraved with foliage, signed on one side and with a serpent on the other, engraved thumbpiece safety-catches, blued folding triggers, vacant silver escutcheons, and flat-sided walnut butts (refinished overall), by Westley Richards, London proof marks, ...
The Use of Paste Technology in the Surface Disposal of Mineral Waste; Waste Minimisation and Recycle: Birmingham, UK, 1997. [Google Scholar] Trampus, B.C.; Franca, S.C. Performances of two flocculants and their mixtures for red mud dewatering and disposal based on mineral paste production....