A note on Hallmarks !
Copying or even owning a "silver" item with a forged hallmark is an offence in England.
See the following for details .....
The Birmingham Assay Office
Gary J.
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16 OFFENCES
In addition to those already referred to the following are the most important offences-
(a) for any person to forge or counterfeit a hallmark with intent to defraud or deceive or to transpose a hallmark from one article to another;
(b) for any person to supply or offer to supply an article bearing a counterfeit mark knowing or believing the mark to be counterfeit;
(c) for any person without lawful authority or excuse to have in his custody or control an article which to his knowledge or belief bears a counterfeit of any mark;
(d) for any person knowingly or for any dealer to supply an article bearing a mark of the character of a hallmark or likely to be confused with a hallmark which the Assay Office are satisfied has not been struck thereon by an Assay Office or is not a true description because the article appears to have been the subject of an improper alteration.
Sections 6 and 7.
17 PENALTIES
For any offence under this Act the penalties are, in the case of summary conviction, a fine not exceeding £2,000 or, on conviction on indictment, an unlimited fine or a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years or both, except in the case of forgery or counterfeiting in which case the term of imprisonment is one not exceeding ten years.
Section 6 (I) and Schedule 3 (as amended).
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