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Java-E UK - Who Makes Our Hallmarks ?
There are only 4 Assay Offices in the UK that are allowed to create/put hallmarks on items. We use the Assay Office based in Birmingham in the UK. They only hallmark a given item after they have taken a sample of metal from that specific item and the samples then pass their various purity tests.
The Birmingham Assay Office
perform every stage of the testing and marking procedures for all of our jewellery items themselves.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT: The UK has probably the most stringent precious metal and hallmarking consumer laws in the world. No items which are over a certain weight (about 7 grams) can be sold as Silver, Gold, or Platinum in the UK unless they have been hallmarked by one of the 4 UK Assay Offices, and it is the Assay Offices who perform all the purity tests for the relevant items. As we sell from the UK, we are subject to these stringent laws, and we are happy that such laws protect all UK jewellery customers, and that as a result of these laws, UK hallmarked items have probably the best provenance in the world.
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