This new section of the website is designed to host Members articles and blogs that the Society feels will be of interest to other Members and which have not and will not be published in The Silver Studies Journal.

Articles may be shorter, less academic, or on narrower collecting areas than those typically published in Silver Studies.  Alternatively articles may have been published in other journals but still very relevant to Society members.  Articles must still be of a high a standard with appropriate copyright consents to be published.  The Committee will use its sole discretion to determine an article’s suitability for listing.

Hallmarking Imported Watches

Gold and silver watch cases should always have been hallmarked at a British assay office before being retailed, but before 1907 most imported watches did not have properly hallmarked cases due to a mixture of archaic practices and poorly framed laws.