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Understanding Hallmarks: A Beginner’s Guide to British Silver Marks

Understanding silver hallmarks – beginner’s guide to identifying and dating British antique silver, illustrated with a silver bowl and traditional hallmark symbols.

Understanding hallmarks can turn an ordinary-looking piece of silver into something much more interesting. Those tiny symbols on the back of an old spoon, underneath a silver box or inside a piece of jewellery can reveal where it was tested, how much silver it contains and, quite often, when it was hallmarked. However, if you’ve […]