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Please join us in wishing a very happy birthday to our Assay Master, Ashley Carson who recently celebrated 60 years young!

The ideal Christmas gift for those interested in hallmarking! To celebrate Black Friday, we are offering a special discount on the Bradbury’s Book of Hallmarks.

On November 13th, the team here at Sheffield Assay Office organised a bake sale to raise much needed funds for BBC Children in Need 2020.

On October 16th, the Annual General Meeting of the Guardians of the Standard of Wrought Plate within the Town of Sheffield was held by Zoom. For an event such as this, the Chairman, Law Clerk and Assay Master wear their badges of office - special items that form part of the Sheffield Assay Office collection but are rarely seen close up.

From sheet to sculpture; Tony Bedford retells the journey of creating a three dimensional silver head using only hammer and chasing skills in this one-off, online lecture held by the Contemporary British Silversmiths.

The British Hallmarking Council, made up of the four UK Assay Offices, and the National Association of Jewellers are running a poll to decide the 2021 Platinum Jubilee hallmark. Would you like to have your say?

The Elements Festival of Jewellery is an annual celebration of the UK’s most significant designer jewellers & silversmiths - this year we are delighted to see five Sheffield silversmiths exhibiting on the festival's online platform.

Copper was the first metal to be worked by people and was used mainly in production of coins, along with silver and gold, but nowadays the most common use is in electrical equipment such as wiring and motors. Find out more...