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3 results for “fire assay” in Craft
Craft · 22 July 2026
Hallmarks and Assay: How Anyone Proves Gold Is Gold
…eness verified by an independent third party — not weight, value, age or craftsmanship. · Fire assay remains the referee method; XRF is fast and non-destructive but reads only the surface. · Karat and fineness describe the same thing on different scales: 18ct is 750 parts per tho…
Yusuf Demir · 12 min read
Craft · 5 June 2026
The Alchemy of Craft: What Goldsmiths Know That Machines Don't
…e value lies precisely in the fact that it cannot be run again. · Reading a hallmark · In assay-office jurisdictions, the marks struck into a finished piece are a compressed provenance record: the sponsor's mark identifying the maker, the fineness in millesimal form, the assay of…
Yusuf Demir · 11 min read
Craft · 3 August 2026
The Wedding-Season Bid: How Jewellery Demand Sets the Floor
…ing has been the more effective intervention, and for a different reason. By requiring an assayed purity mark, it attacks the oldest problem in the retail trade: pieces sold as 22 karat that assay at 19 or 20. That fraud is a tax on exactly the households least able to verify wha…
Yusuf Demir · 16 min read
