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NEW FROM THE JEWELLERY SHOW AT THE NEC BIRMINGHAM   Awards Day for The Birmingham Assay Office Sunday 3rd February is a double award day for The Birmingham Assay Office at The Jewellery Show. Immediately after the show closes at 6 o’ clock, Chief Executive of The Birmingham Assay Office, Michael Allchin, with be presenting the Giftware Association’s Gift of the Year Award. For the very first time The Laboratory at the Birmingham Assay Office has sponsored the Fashion Jewe…

  A selection was photographed by X-Ray and it could clearly be seen that some pearls, which all had a suspiciously uniform appearance, had a large bead under the outer-coating. Scraping revealed two coatings neither of which was a natural crystalline structure, confirming that this was not a freshwater cultured pearl. Further analysis using the Raman Spectrophotometer, X Ray Fluorescence and the electron spectrometer proved conclusively that most of the pearls were man-made imitations a…

 

DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR BUSINESS CARDS WITH YOU THERE WILL BE A PRIZE DRAW EVERY DAY OF THE SHOW ON THE STAND WIN CHOCOLATES AND WINE FOR YOUR OWN VALENTINE JUST LEAVE US YOUR BUSINESS CARD AND THE PRIZE COULD BE YOURS!