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3 results for “counterparty risk” in Craft
Craft · 3 August 2026
The Wedding-Season Bid: How Jewellery Demand Sets the Floor
…rential between the domestic and international price widens until it exceeds the cost and risk of carrying metal across a border unofficially — at which point it is carried. · Mandatory hallmarking has been the more effective intervention, and for a different reason. By requiring…
Yusuf Demir · 15 min read
Craft · 22 July 2026
Hallmarks and Assay: How Anyone Proves Gold Is Gold
…slightly above the nominal. An 18-karat piece submitted at exactly 750 parts per thousand risks a sample coming back at 748 and being refused; the trade works to 752 or 753 and treats the difference as a cost of doing business. · Reading a UK mark Four elements do the work: the s…
Yusuf Demir · 15 min read
Craft · 5 June 2026
The Alchemy of Craft: What Goldsmiths Know That Machines Don't
Gold's working properties are so extreme they border on the absurd — one gram drawn into three kilometres of wire. Inside a trade where the tools have barely changed and the hands are irreplaceable. ·…
Yusuf Demir · 16 min read
