Know the Quality through Gold Hallmark
Gold hallmarking or standard marking is the official quality control mark that determines the purity of gold and other precious metals like silver and platinum. It gives a distinguishing characteristic or trait of a piece of metal or gold through formal metal testing or assay.
Gold hallmarks are often confused with “trademarks” or “maker’s mark”.
Hallmark is the marked stumped on metals as a guarantee of its metal content while trademarks are the manufacturer’s mark to give identity of his product from other manufacturer’s products.
Gold hallmarks have many components as to indicate the manufacturer, the fineness of gold or quality or precious metal content, the carat and which assay office hallmarked the jewelry item.
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