@forecastdeals I have not yet met you. A search for the shop did not show anything…
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@Fabisha here’s info about hallmarking. https://www.assayofficelondon.co.uk/faqs
The assay office is very good at answering questions - just that their answers are never what I want to hear 
I contacted them recently to ask that if I didn’t want to pay to register and have a chainmaille bracelet weighing over 7.78g hallmarked, could I describe it as ‘white metal’ but also list the source materials I’d made it from e.g. jump rings listed as sterling silver bought from Cookson Gold (factual information) - they said ‘no’ as that would be akin to claiming it was sterling silver.
Personally I think it’s a expensive minefield and I’ve decided to just work below the limit and reconsider if I ever become a student again so I can take advantage of the student pricing.
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Thank you Deborah @DeborahJonesJewellery - love this thread, you learn something new every day 
The rain is hammering down at the moment so the gallery is dead. Hope it eases up a bit before I have to walk home!
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Ahh thanks for that info Deborah @DeborahJonesJewellery - yes I can imagine it takes the joy out of it slightly! All I want to do when I’ve made something is show it off! I think with the pendants I’d like to make they will come out as over the weight threshold, but I might go & do some weighing shortly
Think I’m with you @feelfeltfound - it does seem a bit of a minefield! Thanks for that link though. It mentions earrings & says they’re classed as two separate articles - so does that mean each earring could weigh up to 7.8g? I’ve been going by the pair…
Wow Sam @HandknitBySam - that was quick, super posties! So glad you like it & thanks so much for the fab review 
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Good afternoon . Just dodging the showers to go for our walk
I had a sale this morning but I had to refund as she wanted it on Saturday and the way things are I am using our mobile post office in the village one day a week.
Another cushion in my sale
Valerie x
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A reslist of a pink amethyst pendant from me today -
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Yes @OrukiDesign I believe they each count as individual items. Bad news if each were over the weight limit as need to pay for 2 hallmarks but good news if they are individually under the limit (even if both together would be over).
Other things I gleaned were that it’s fine to make items that are above the limit and to give them as gifts, it’s only illegal if you sell them and describe them as sterling silver - apparently you can sell them if you don’t describe them as sterling silver.
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Yes that’s right earrings count as 2 items, but actually if an individual earring weighed 7.8 gram it would be too heavy for most folk to endure.
@OrukiDesign remember to weigh your pendant minus any beads, it is only the metal weight that counts.
I have seen some jewellers that don’t hallmark call their silver “white metal” to get around the legal hurdle. Not sure what the public make of that though.
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Sounds like you already have them anyway but just to say that Amazon has some pretty good low cost jewellers scales - my husband tells me that purchasing them makes me look like a drug dealer, but reckon I have enough jewellery gubbins in the house if the police came round 
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Loved and pinned to here
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Afternoon all. Very interesting learning all about hallmarking on this thread today.
Thanks for the purse love Lynn @erkinwald.
Good luck with your house-hunting SallyAnn @thegreetingscardshop
Hugs to all who are feeling under the weather and congrats to those with sales.
All loved and pinned. Here’s my new listing - not a purse! 
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Thanks, I have the link and yes it’s a minefield
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That’s a really interesting conversation about hallmarking. Thank you Deborah @DeborahJonesJewellery and others. I’m sticking to beads - it sounds so much simpler! (Creatively more limiting perhaps, but definitely simpler!)
https://folksy.com/items/7545473-5-giant-Himalayan-millefiori-glass-tube-beads-approx-2-5cm-long
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Soft , padded , Alpaca / wool blend seatbelt sleeve from me today …
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Hi everyone, I have a bit of catching up to do as I missed yesterday all together. I am still not feeling 100 % but a visit from my sons yesterday did lift my spirits. I have been making things (mainly cards from fabric scraps) but not stock so it is a relist again. https://folksy.com/items/7111173-Crossover-body-style-bag-with-adjustable-strap-in-World-Map-print
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Latona, I love your bag. (I’ve just shared it on my Fb page) My father would certainly have appreciated it. When I was a child (around 60-70 years ago!) he papered the walls in our houses with old Ordinance Survey maps. I remember a huge map of the world covering a chimney breast in a house we left when I was only four.
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A long busy day at work today, so quick catch up, all loved to here. Thunder and lighting at the moment. Another relist from me.
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Good afternoon. All loved and pinned to here.
The information on hallmarking really does sound complicated makes me glad I don’t make jewellery.
Sally Ann @thegreetingscardshop good luck with your house search in Suffolk. We are really pleased we chose this area to live in when we moved back from Spain.
Today another of my new Heart Shaped Hanging Frames.
Just started raining again.
Carol x
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Evening all, just back with my listing. All this advice has been fab, thank you I might have to make a few bigger pieces in silver to keep, but show them on social media & see what interest there is…it would be a big step & a lot of sunk cost. @feelfeltfound I don’t actually have proper scales, I’ve just been using my digital kitchen set, so might have to get some of those. Then maybe if this jewellery stuff doesn’t work out I could get into a more lucrative business I’ll just take myself off to the naughty step…
The map bag is fab Latona @BeautifulFabricBags & love the idea of map wallpaper Joss @XStitcherJoss We have so many OS maps, but they’re all the active ones so have the plastic coating - not sure they’d work!!
Today I have the same pendant in a different colour - just hope this one sells as quickly!
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Well I did it caught up to here, although I was beginning to drift at one point. Max @MaxPringJewellery that humming bird is fantastic. Brenda @teabreaks what a lovely waterfall, but I could not live there as i would constantly be visiting the loo! Joss @XStitcherJoss love chicken Licken too and your Noah’s ark is just brilliant. I map wall papering sounds like something my Dad would have done too. He painted the Hall in red circles and triangles on yellow. Chris @ChrisStoneArtist I love the way you have captured the light on the water. Deborah @DeborahJonesJewellery you should write a Folksy blog on Hallmarks its fascinating. Helen @PocketfulCreations love that fabric.
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