Assay Office Birmingham News

Estimating the carat weight of gemstones which are already mounted is something which experienced jewellers, pawnbrokers and valuers need to do everyday. In a couple of clicks, the AnchorCert Gemstone Weight Estimator can easily calculate the estimated carat weight of diamonds and gemstones from their measurements. The calculation will use the measurement of the length, width and depth of the gemstone (and the minimum and maximum diameter of round brilliant diamonds). To downloa…

Carla Goodfellow, Operations Director and Marie Brennan, Business Development Manager were delighted to take part in Red Nose Day on Friday 13th March as they volunteered to help man the telephone lines at one of Comic Relief’s  Call Centres throughout the televised programme which started at 7pm on Friday evening. The Call Centre was based at the Offices of SBS Insurance in Cannock, a business which has played a significant part in the success of Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day …

Congratulations to the mother of Doug Nelson who won our recent Mother's Day competition. Doug  sent us this lovely photo and commented that the flowers were greatly appreciated and his Mom was very pleased and surprised to receive them.  As we say at Assay Office Birmingham - It's all part of the service!!  If you took part in the competition and you were unfortunate not to win on this occasion, don't be too disappointed as you will have another chance of winning some great pr…

Congratulations to Doug Nelson of WHSmith, who is the lucky winner of a bouquet of flowers for his Mom on Mother's Day! Doug answered all 3 questions correctly which were as follows; 1) In what year was this date letter created? 7 Courses 3) Name 3 chemical tests for leather