[Jewelry making - Article 00002] - Re: [Orchid] How to stamp a sharp hallmark

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Dear Dave
 

>            ...I want to be sure I didn't give you a misperception
>     about when I use 22k bezel and 14k sheet, as I mentioned recently.
>     I mark the piece as 14k, as it is the lowest karat component in the
>     piece.... 
 

    I have always enjoyed and adored your posts to this forum and I am
    sorry if you felt that I questioned your or anybody else's honesty or
    integrity in this matter. That was absolutely not my intention. I
    merely referred to various advices previously given in this forum
    about for instance using 14 kt gold as a solder for 18 kt pieces as
    this is not legal here. We stamp 18 kt with '750' and that means that
    no part of the piece is allowed to have a lower content of gold than
    750/1000, so using low karat solder is not possible. Indeed you can
    use say a 22 kt bezel on a 18 kt piece as long as you - as you so
    rightly point out - only stamp it with 750 

>            I have, in the past, marked a piece with both an 18k and
>     14k stamp when I used both metals, but I have been rethinking this
>     practice, as a result of Orchid dialogue. I don't know that our
>     guidelines in the U.S. support multiple karat stamps, even if it
>     doesn't *specifically* address it. Which also brings up the question
>     about mixed metal pieces, such as sterling and 14k. Can one mark
>     both metals, as there would obviously not be any attempt deception
>     as to which is which? Hmmm.... 
 

    Stamping mixed metals is always a difficult item. The legislation
    here in Denmark allow us to use two (or more) stamps on mixed metal
    pieces, but only if the difference in material is quite distinctive.
    I.e. one can stamp a piece with sterling and 18 kt yellow gold with
    '925' and '750' respectively (stamps must be placed on respective
    metals) , but I am not sure about a piece of mixed sterling and white
    gold - but BTW who would create such a piece? Hmmm.... Greetings from
    Bornholm, Denmark, where the weather is behaving like spring Niels


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