23/06/2026
What an eye opener this seminar was… “Marks of Deception, Fakes and Forgeries in Silver” at Goldsmiths’ Hall last week.
A brilliant hands-on course under expert tutelage illustrating how silver hallmarks can be revisited and cancelled due to a number of factors including deliberate misrepresentation or misguided alteration. Some of the pieces on display illustrated great ingenuity in historical recycling of formerly hallmarked pieces, thereby invalidating the existing marks. If you look carefully at the final image, you will notice the cross hatched engraving physically removing former hallmarks.