Here's Penny Parkes from Birmingham Assay Office showing the office's new Help With Hallmarks app. Birmingham Day - Penny Parkes from Birmingham Assay Office shows the Office's new Help With Hallmarks app The app contains a comprehensive database of UK Assay Offices, date letters (from 1544), fineness and duty and commemorative marks. The Birmingham Assay Office is a not-for- profit organisation and has been a centre of expert opinion and independent assessment of jewellery and precious metals for nearly 250 years. The Birmingham Assay Office is delighted to announce the arrival of its latest innovative App – Help With Hallmarks. Available on both iPhone and iPad as well as Android devices, it enables users to quickly research and identify the date letter on precious metal, jewellery and silverware. The App includes date letters from the eleven key assay offices in the UK, going back as far as 1544. Priced at only £9.99, the App also contains useful information relating to hallmarks, and is an invaluable “on the go” tool for retailers, collectors, antique and second hand dealers, silver experts, valuers and students, as well as members of the public who have a general interest in historic hallmarks. Just Go to iTunes or Google Play store to download – type in Help With Hallmarks –   to go straight to the APP. How did you ever live without it !  

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