The Watchdog Daily team recently ventured to the Birmingham Assay Office, with a cohort of Birmingham Trading Standards officers, to document the progress of seized, wrongly hallmarked goods. Local presenter Shefali Oza and the TV crew followed the exercise as Trading Standards officer (TSO) Gary Singh and his colleagues uncovered 90 items, with a retail value of more than £25,000, which were un-hallmarked or suspected of bearing fake trademarks. Please click on the link below …

L-R Michael Allchin - Assay Master & Chief Executive, Marion Wilson - Marketing Director, Marie Brennan - Business Relations Manager The Birmingham Assay Office It is 125 years to the day since the first Committee of the Birmingham Jewellers and Silversmiths’ Association was elected and the organisation eventually became national in 1946. The first elected Chairman in 1887 was Charles Green and his Great Grandson Tom, now Chairman of the family business, will be there today al…

   The winning piece by Nathalia Guarascio  This was the fifth year that the competition has been run and Tom Green (Chairman of Charles Green )and all the judges were impressed with both the design and CAD work of all the pieces, Tom said ‘each and every piece has its merits and we were delighted with the quality and originality of the work’. However there can be only one winner and this year’s prize of £250 and a week’s work experience at Charles Green…