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3 results for “assay office hallmark” in Craft
Craft · 22 July 2026
Hallmarks and Assay: How Anyone Proves Gold Is Gold
A hallmark is one of the oldest consumer protection technologies in continuous use. It is also, on close inspection, a small masterpiece of institutional design — and it is being quietly erode…
Yusuf Demir · 12 min read
Craft · 5 June 2026
The Alchemy of Craft: What Goldsmiths Know That Machines Don't
…per cent by mass, stamped 750 in the millesimal system that most of the world now uses on hallmarks. Fourteen karat is 585. Nine karat, common in Britain, is 375 — more alloy than gold, and a source of long-standing argument about what may honestly be called a gold ring. · The al…
Yusuf Demir · 11 min read
Craft · 3 August 2026
The Wedding-Season Bid: How Jewellery Demand Sets the Floor
…ondon price are the clearest real-time read on Asian physical appetite. · Import duty and hallmarking rules move demand between the formal and informal trade more than they move total consumption. · Why is Indian jewellery usually 22 karat? Because it is bought partly as stored v…
Yusuf Demir · 16 min read
