This page reports the hall-marks of the British Assay Offices operating in UK over all time.

At present only four Assay Offices are still operating: Birmingham, London, Edinburgh and Sheffield.

For these four Offices the complete hall-mark series are reported. For part ot the remaining Offices link to web pages reporting hall-marks can be found .

TOWN MARKS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BRITISH ASSAY OFFICES

 London

                                                  London (between 1696 and 1720)

            Birmingham

   Chester

  Exeter

         Newcastle

    Norwich

        Sheffield

                                  Sheffield (since 1975)

   York

              Edinburgh

             Glasgow

            Dublin

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I HALL-MARKS OF ASSAY OFFICES STILL OPERATING

Click on the icon for a selection of hall-marks of the Assay Offices sill operating in the UK.

    Birmingham     London        Edinburgh Sheffield

Link to the hall-marks(*) of some Assay Offices

Chester Exeter Glasgow   Newcastle York

(*) In these series of hall-marks, duty marks (compulsory between 1784 and 1890) were missing. They are reported separately at the link Duty marks).

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