Hall marks on gold & silver plate

HALL MARKS FOR FOREIGN PLATE. 117
Different stamps were to be used by each assay authority, so
that it might be known at which office foreign plate was assayed.
These <strong>marks</strong> are mentioned and illustrated in the notes relating to
each Assay Office.
a less artistic or worse-drawn series of hall-<strong>marks</strong>
Probably
have never been produced, than the series for foreign plate, as promulgated
by these two orders, and here redrawn
May II, 1906. Order in Council.
Under this Order, which was published in the "London
Gazette" of May 15, 1906, further regulations were made in relation
to the assaying of foreign wrought plate. It was also found expedient
to vary the <strong>marks</strong> to be used by the Assay authorities of
London, Sheffield, Glasgow and Dublin. The <strong>marks</strong> for Birmingham,
Chester and Edinburgh were not altered; nor were the standard
<strong>marks</strong> changed.
These new <strong>marks</strong> are noted and illustrated in their proper
places.