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What (who) is HALLMARKED - definition

OFFICIAL STAMP AFFIXED BY GUILDS OR ASSAY OFFICES TO GOLD AND SILVER OBJECTS
Hall-Mark; Hallmarks; Hall mark; Hall-mark; Hallmarked; Halmarked; Assay mark; Hall Mark
  • Offshore hallmark used by Birmingham Assay Office's subsidiary in India. Precious metal objects assayed and marked outside of the UK must carry a mark which distinguishes them from items assayed in the UK.
  • The official hallmark used for all precious metals and all fineness standards since 1995, the "head of a St. Bernard dog"
  • These two pieces of hallmarked English silver show assay "scrapes," where a small amount of silver was removed from the underside of the item in order to perform a fire assay. The 10 3/4" salver (Richard Rugg, 1759) shows a large scrape. The salt cellar (Robert & Samuel Hennell, 1803) has a much smaller  scrape - however the cellar was from a set of at least four, allowing for scrapes to be combined.
  •  The French hallmarks 1798–1972
  • Jewelry hallmark: [[Dirce Repossi]]
  • The French hallmarks 1838–1919 not official
  • The Polish hallmarks 1963–1986
  • A set of hallmarks on an English silver spoon. From left to right, the maker's mark of [[George Unite]], the date letter (1889), the [[Birmingham Assay Office]] mark, the lion passant and the monarch's head tax-mark
  • The Swiss hallmarks used on the watch cases

hallmark         
(hallmarks)
1.
The hallmark of something or someone is their most typical quality or feature.
It's a technique that has become the hallmark of Amber Films...
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2.
A hallmark is an official mark put on things made of gold, silver, or platinum that indicates the quality of the metal, where the object was made, and who made it.
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Hallmark         
A hallmark is an official mark or series of marks struck on items made of metal, mostly to certify the content of noble metals—such as platinum, gold, silver and in some nations, palladium. In a more general sense, the term hallmark can also be used to refer to any distinguishing mark.
hallmark         
¦ noun
1. a mark stamped on articles of gold, silver, or platinum by the British assay offices, certifying purity.
2. a distinctive feature, especially of excellence.
¦ verb
1. stamp with a hallmark.
2. designate as distinctive.
Origin
C18: from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, where articles were tested and stamped.

Wikipedia

Hallmark

A hallmark is an official mark or series of marks struck on items made of metal, mostly to certify the content of noble metals—such as platinum, gold, silver and in some nations, palladium. In a more general sense, the term hallmark can also be used to refer to any distinguishing mark.

BIS Hallmark

The BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) Hallmark is a hallmarking system for gold as well as silver jewellery sold in India certifying the purity of the metal. It certifies that the piece of jewellery conforms to a set of standards laid by the Bureau of Indian Standards, the national standards organization of India.

Examples of use of HALLMARKED
1. He even hallmarked his investment in her by naming one company Ilona, after her middle name.
2. The most recent assessments (Kevin Toolis in The Times yesterday) have suggested that there was nothing special or hallmarked about the explosive at all.
3. Nearby a man in his 30s wore a T–shirt bearing a police badge, several names, and a single word: ‘Gone.‘ Others held up signs reading ‘You will always be with us‘, and ‘Never forget‘. The exact moments that hallmarked the atrocity five years ago were heralded yesterday by a lone bell and a minute‘s silence.
4. Before long, 300 people would come to listen – Burroughs came – it all erupted from there." John Cale If there is a kernel to the Meltdown festival, it is a 30th anniversary straight performance of the debut album Patti Smith recorded in 1'75÷ Horses, played with the man who produced it, John Cale, the author of the inimitable drone that hallmarked the Velvet Undergound and now one of the world‘s most eclectic and creative solo musicians.