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3 results for “LBMA Good Delivery” in Craft
Craft · 22 July 2026
Hallmarks and Assay: How Anyone Proves Gold Is Gold
…ont of a bracelet has, unaided, almost no way to distinguish 750 fineness from 375 with a good finish. · Societies that traded gold seriously worked this out early and built an institution rather than a gadget. The hallmark — a set of small punched symbols applied by a body with…
Yusuf Demir · 12 min read
Craft · 5 June 2026
The Alchemy of Craft: What Goldsmiths Know That Machines Don't
…ith has a ruined piece from the year they learned this. · The bench pin, the graver and a good lamp. The core toolkit has changed remarkably little since the Renaissance. Close-up of a goldsmith engraving gold sheet under a workbench lamp · Techniques that survived the industrial…
Yusuf Demir · 11 min read
Craft · 3 August 2026
The Wedding-Season Bid: How Jewellery Demand Sets the Floor
…he formal channel rather than genuine consumption. Divergence between India and China — a good early signal that one market's move is local policy rather than a global change in appetite. · Duty, hallmarking and the informal channel · Governments that see large gold imports on th…
Yusuf Demir · 16 min read
