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The dedication and inventiveness of the winners of the 2021 Touchstone Award highlight the importance of hallmarking enforcement, writes Ken Daly in the Journal of Trading Standards.
Annual report and accounts of the British Hallmarking Council for the year ended 31 December 2010.
Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021.
All 4 offices will be closed for at least 3 weeks.
The Touchstone Award, sponsored by the British Hallmarking Council (BHC), is a national award for trading standards in hallmarking.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Palladium is now officially a precious metal for fine jewellery with the introduction of a compulsory UK hallmark from 1 January 2010.
First published during the 2005 to 2010 Labour government
David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, has made 4 new appointments to the British Hallmarking Council.
British Hallmarking Council chairman Tom Murray welcomes official retention of the hallmark.
A review of the British Hallmarking Council's (BHC) 2012 achievements and its aims for 2013.
Guidance on the description, hallmarking and marking of bonded gold in the UK.
Information from the UK's assay offices giving guidance on the Hallmarking Act 1973.
The sub-office is operated by assay office employees as an independent facility within a host company or at a separate location.
The UK’s hallmarking system is one of the oldest and most robust in the world. The Touchstone Award aims to emphasise its continuing importance, as Marion Wilson explains.
This document contains the following information: British Hallmarking Council annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2006
Guidance for assay offices on how to cancel or obliterate an ancient hallmark under the Hallmarking Act 1973.
This document contains the following information: British Hallmarking Council annual report 2008 to 2009.
This document contains the following information: British Hallmarking Council annual report and accounts 2007.
This document contains the following information: British Hallmarking Council annual report and accounts 2007 to 2008.
Current British Hallmarking Council regulations.
The Joint Committee of Assay Offices’ notice on hallmarking consents.
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