[Jewelry making - Article 00551] - Re: [Orchid] Hallmarking Two-tone metal

[Silverspotstudio]

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>     I would love to be able to stamp my mokume rings but have been
>     advised that I cannot legally do it. 

    I'd often wondered about this, especially when the metals used in
    the mokumeare very valuable ones. Do you simply offer customers a
    card or other suchdescription disclosing the materials? 

    Personally, I don't see why mixed-metals pieces shouldn't be sold in
    thatmanner - customers enjoy having printed information about their
    piece, especially if it's something interesting that they can show
    off to their friends, and it should seem self-evident that a jeweler
    willing to go to the trouble of writing such a statement isn't trying
    to rip anyone off. 

    Am I right in thinking that it actually isn't illegal to _not_ stamp
    pieces at all, or am I misreading things? (I tend to be a bit
    forgetful about it, and often realize in the final stages of
    constructing something that I should have stamped it much earlier. 
    How nice it would be to just let it go!) 

Cheers,
Jessee Smith
www.silverspotstudio.com
Cincinnati, Ohio

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