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Welcome to our education section! Here you can find out everything you need to know about buying diamond jewelry. In each guide, we cover a range of topics designed to help you make an informed decision when buying jewelry. Learn everything you need to know, such as the 4Cs of diamonds in our diamond education guide, tips on how to find your ring size at home along with the best method to clean your jewelry. Read more

Hallmarks

Precious metals are alloyed with other metals during the manufacturing process rather than used in their purest form. As a result, this makes it difficult to determine the amount of precious metal that is present in a particular jewelry piece. All of our jewelry comes with a guarantee of its precious metal content through third-party independent hallmarking.

It is unlawful to describe an item over a certain weight as silver, gold, palladium or platinum, as per the 1973 Hallmarking Act, without an independently applied hallmark. It states the following weights must be hallmarked:

  • Silver weighing more than 7.78 grams
  • Gold weighing more than 1 gram
  • Platinum weighing more than 0.5 grams
  • Palladium weighing more than 1 gram

Anything below the stated weight can be described as gold, silver, platinum or palladium without being hallmarked.

Hallmarks

Precious metals are alloyed with other metals during the manufacturing process rather than used in their purest form. As a result, this makes it difficult to determine the amount of precious metal that is present in a particular jewelry piece. All of our jewelry comes with a guarantee of its precious metal content through third-party independent hallmarking.

It is unlawful to describe an item over a certain weight as silver, gold, palladium or platinum, as per the 1973 Hallmarking Act, without an independently applied hallmark. It states that:

  • Silver weighing more than 7.78 grams must be hallmarked.
  • Gold weighing more than 1 gram must be hallmarked.
  • Platinum weighing more than 0.5 grams must be hallmarked.
  • Palladium weighing more than 1 gram must be hallmarked.

Anything below the stated weight can be described as gold, silver, platinum or palladium without being hallmarked.

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