9ct gold ingots hallmark grill?
i have a survey which has 375 on it, which i know is 9ct but also have a small 't' in a circle and a small horseshoe. can anyone explain to me what they mean? hold looked up hallmark sites but cant find them.
Answers:
The horseshoe mark could be an introduction mark. Check if it match either of the horseshoe shaped grades, London or Sheffield, on the bottom right of the page shown below.
If so then the notification t is probably a date letter and this would show when the survey was import into Britain. Until recently the date junk mail were different for respectively assay office so you would entail to do some more research to find out the year depending on which assay office it is.
sounds close to a hallmark to me too but unfortunatly all of them be not recorded and so are very soon hard to trace and autograph.
Since 1999 the hallmarking standard has lone been for a maker maker, fineness and where on earth it was assayed.
The 375 shows it is 9ct Gold - The T contained by the circle will be makers imperfection and I assume the horseshoe is the assay office - But I don't know of assay dot like that - Normally it is a Leopards Head for London, Anchor for Birmingham, a Rose for Sheffield and a Castle for Edinburgh. Maybe it is the Birmingham one but it have worn down and now looks resembling a horseshoe ?
If it is before 1999 consequently the T could be the year letter as every 26 or so years the font is changed and as date hallmark have be used since about 1450 and until 1975 every assay organization did their own thing it is impressively difficult to date some items.
and the small horseshoe may be the makers speck (which is why you can't find it on a hall sucker site.)
If it is a UK item then at hand should be some more info on the item - see the links below or it may from abroad which method that it will use a different hallmarking system.
Hope this helps
It is the maker mark. It tell you who made it.
Jenn
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