Assay Office Birmingham News

This week's 'Spotlight on the Valuer' see's SafeGuard's Joanne White tell us all about jewellery valuations. Joanne loves the variety and challenge of the job. She says “Meeting the challenge on valuation days (you never know what may come in) as well as speaking with customers face to face is very enjoyable. She also likes travelling to different parts of the country and meeting the staff at the various different shops and showing them “how a valuation is done.” SafeGuard c…

Start 2015 in style.  Here is your chance to win a free place on the first of next year's Understanding Hallmarking courses, which will take place on Wednesday 25th February 2015. The UNIQUE Assay Office Experience As part of the hallmarking course you will have the chance to go behind the scenes of the Hallmarking floor, which is not open to the general public. During a special guided tour, you will see how Hallmarks are applied to precious metal items and jewellery and have the chanc…

Assay Office Birmingham is opening it's doors to the general public for the FINAL Silver Visit of 2014.  This will be one of the last chances to visit us before we MOVE in 2015. Visitors will be met with a warm welcome, including coffee and biscuits before the visit, and afterwards, in the Gift Shop, they will be able to buy gifts such as books and silver items all made in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter and hallmarked at Assay Office Birmingham.

Staff from Assay Office Birmingham recently visited the new building project to see how work was coming along. [caption id="attachment_10867" align="aligncenter" width="410"]