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	Assay Office
		Assay Office as a body of the administration authority performs the state control in the field of hallmarking and precious metal testing.
		The Assay Office represents the Czech Republic in the Convention on the Control and Marking of Articles of Precious Metals.
		The Assay Office draws the laic and professional publicÂ´s attention to the fact, that it has detected and captured three pieces of bracelets having been declared and sold by fakers as gold art...
	www.puncovniurad.cz /en (503 words)

	Assay
		An assay is a procedure where the concentration of a component part of a mixture is determined.
		There are numerous applications of an assay, such as an antigen capture assay, bioassay, competitive protein binding assay, four-point assay, immunoassay, microbiological assay, stem cell assay, and many others.
		Assays are regularly utilized in scientific research laboratories.
	www.ibpassociation.org /encyclopedia/Chemistry/Assay.php (296 words)

	The Birmingham Assay Office
		The Birmingham Assay Office use reasonable endeavours to maintain the accuracy of its website but no warranties or representations are given as to correctness, accuracy or reliability of its website or otherwise.
		The Birmingham Assay Office shall not be liable for any damages to or viruses which may infect your computer or other equipment on account of your access, use or browsing of the website or downloading of any material from it.
		Anything you transmit to The Birmingham Assay Office may be used for any purpose provided that personal information shall be used strictly in accordance with the privacy policy of The Birmingham Assay Office from time to time.
	www.theassayoffice.co.uk /terms.html (421 words)

	Assay office - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The assay office was a facility located on the Promenade of Deep Space 9, used for the storage of valuable items.
		Morn kept a brick of gold pressed latinum in storage locker 137 in the assay office, which was "inherited" by Quark after Morn faked his own death in 2374.
		The assay office's logo was seen on an interface that Arissa used to gain access to the facility, and also on the doors to the office itself.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Assay_office (298 words)

	Assay Office Birmingham UK
		The Assay Office Birmingham mark is that of an anchor which may seem strange considering that Birmingham is so far from the coast.
		The role of the Assay Office is to test and analyse the content of precious metals and to ensure the quality of the product before it is sold, thereby guaranteeing the authenticity of the precious metals content and quality.
		Assaying is the weighing of a sample for purity purposes.
	www.birminghamuk.com /assay (241 words)

	RMS Republic - Assay Office and Sub Treasury
		The Assay Office is a branch of the United States Mint, and, as its name indicates, it receives and assays deposits of gold and silver and returns same to the depositors in the shape of bars, or the Government will give coin for the value of the gold.
		It is from this office that the exporters of gold obtain most of the yellow metal for shipment; and it is in this connection that the Assay Office becomes an important part of the mechanism of Wall Street.
		The Assay Office makes two kinds of gold bars for sale: small bars varying in value from $100 to $700, which are bought for use in the arts and sciences; and large bars varying in value from $5,000 to $8,000, which are used for the export of the precious metal.
	www.rms-republic.com /details_market2.html (1642 words)

	Hallmarking Bagpipe Silver
		Hallmarks are the symbols stamped on gold, silver or platinum articles to indicate that they have been tested at an official Assay Office and that they conform to the legal standard.
		The lion rampant is the pictorial symbol for sterling silver assayed in Scotland, and with the passing of the January 1999 changes, is now a voluntary mark on silver whether produced in the U.K. or imported into the U.K. (Articles assayed in England would show a lion passant, i.e.
		The fourth mark is known as the Assay Office Mark and signifies which assay office tested and marked the article.
	www.bagpipesilver.com /hallmarking.html (568 words)

	The Goldsmiths' Company - Current Hallmarks
		The four assay offices at London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Edinburgh operate under the Act.
		This means that UK Assay Offices can strike the Convention Hallmark which will then be recognised by all member countries in the International Convention.
		The shield design around the Assay Office Mark sometimes varies according to whether the article is gold, silver or platinum.
	www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk /assayoffice/currenthallmarks.htm (788 words)

	Sheffield Assay Office - HallMarking, Laser Marking and Analytical Services
		Sheffield Assay Master, Ashley Carson is celebrating 30 years at Sheffield Assay Office this month.
		Established in 1773, Sheffield Assay Office is one of Sheffield’s oldest and most respected companies.
		He began working at the Sheffield Assay Office in the school holidays because his mother worked there.
	www.assayoffice.co.uk (887 words)

	The walk 5: Elkingtons' & the Assay Office
		Many in Birmingham, including most notably Matthew Boulton, found this situation unacceptable and a joint deputation was organised on behalf of Birmingham and Sheffield to petition Parliament to authorise assay offices in the two towns.
		The day was won, and if any one was left in any doubt as to the integrity with which assaying would be carried out in Birmingham, such doubts were swiftly dispelled when Matthew Boulton himself became the first manufacturer to have his wares destroyed as sub-standard.
		The Assay Office is supervised by a Board of Guardians, only a proportion of whose members may be drawn from the jewellery trade.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /walk5.htm (1990 words)

	Nevada City: Ott's Assay Office & The South Yuba Canal Building (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ott’s Assay Office is said to have had $27 million in gold pass through its doors without ever once being held up or robbed.
		Ott moved in when his original Assay Office, a wooden structure located just next door, burned to the ground in the fire of 1863.
		In 1859, he made the famous assay of the blue muck that was causing the Washoe miners no end of trouble, clogging up their workings, difficult or impossible to throw away.
	www.malakoff.com /mcnevaao.htm (346 words)

	Idaho Historic Sites
		Assay equipment was slow to arrive, and by the time the office began to function in February of 1872, many rich surface placers of gold in Idaho had almost been depleted.
		Originally the offices and assayer's laboratory were on the first floor, and the second floor contained the living quarters of the chief assayer.
		Despite slight alterations to the exterior and major interior changes during the remodeling of 1933, the basic structure and general appearance are essentially the same as those of the original building.
	www.idahohistory.net /historic_sites.html (443 words)

	National Park Service - Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster (United States Assay Office) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By the time the assay office began to function, the rich surface placers of gold in Idaho had been almost depleted and production underwent a considerable slump until 1883, when miners opened the Coeur d'Alene region.
		The assay office continued operating until 1933, when the U.S. Forest Service acquired the building as headquarters for the Boise National Forest and remodeled it.
		Despite slight alterations to the exterior and interior during the remodeling in 1933, the basic structure and general appearance are essentially the same as those of the original building.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/prospector/siteb9.htm (409 words)

	assay offices
		There is also an assay office in Dublin, which until 1923 was recognised as a having approved British hallmarks and continues to mark articles in a similar manner.
		The first assay office was closed down at the enforced introduction of Britannia as the minimum standard in 1697, only to be re-opened by Act of Parliament in 1701.
		This new assay office had a new symbol, that of St. George’s cross charged with five lion passants, and in line with London used the Britannia standard mark and the lion’s head erased mark, however it was not too last long as it closed down again in 1716.
	www.antiquesilverspoons.co.uk /assay_offices.htm (2170 words)

	United States Assay Office Gold Coins
		While the government’s response to the need for an adequate coinage was slow and never satisfactory, two institutions were established (the State Assay Office of California and the United States Assay Office) that did provide an unconventional and partly successful attempt to supply a frontier area with an acceptable quantity of an "official" circulating medium.
		The private coinage proscription was not enforced by the public or government because the State Assay Office failed to mint enough ingots for the local demand.
		Ironically, an institution that was designed to replace the need for private gold minting actually preserved it (i.e., Moffat and Co.'s undebased coins from the first period continued in circulation) and in fact stimulated its resurgence (i.e., the second period of private gold coinage).
	www.coinfacts.com /pioneer_gold/united_states_assay_office/us_assay_office/us_assay_office.htm (252 words)

	Assay Office (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Front view of the mining assay office and the companion dress-maker's shop.
		Model is built to 1/12 scale (1 inch = 1 foot.) Pencil, ruler, and eyeglasses in the lower part of the picture give an indication of the scale.
		A detailed view of the front of the assay office.
	www.frontierminiatures.com /assay_office.htm (58 words)

	RMS Republic - NY Assay Office Lacks Gold Bars
		The only drawback is the absence of bars suitable for export, and as the Assay Office receives only about $1,000,000 weekly, shippers of gold will have to resort to coin, which of course, entails more expense and is less satisfactory in every way.
		Receipts of gold bullion at the assay office have recently averaged about $1,000,000 a week, which limits the capacity of that institution to supply gold bars for export.
		The New York Assay Office has no supply of gold bars on hand of the size usually used by gold exporters, and most of last week's shipment was made in the shape of coin.
	www.rms-republic.com /details_report4.html (1906 words)

	Mint Facilities - The United States Mint
		Miners brought in gold dust and nuggets to be melted, assayed and cast into bars stamped with their weight and quality.
		By 1895, the Assay Office was booming, bringing in more than $5.6 million in gold and silver deposits annually.
		In 1904, the government decided to convert the Assay Office into a working mint, and built a much grander facility, an Italian Renaissance style building modeled after a Florentine palace.
	www.usmint.gov /about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?action=DV_facilities (285 words)

	Assay Office
		The Assay Office which operates under the aegis of the Ministry of Industry and SME, Commerce and Cooperatives was established in February 1993 following the enactment on 26 July 1990 of the Jewellery Act 1990.
		In November 1999, the act was reviewed and consolidated so as to make better provision for the regulation and control of the manufacture, sale and importation of jewellery made of gold or its alloy.
		Assaying of gold alloys and gold jewellery for the jewellers and the public
	www.gov.mu /portal/site/industry-site/menuitem.c6432ac15d27705db3347524e2b521ca (315 words)

	Nineteenth-Century English Silver \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One, the sterling mark, showed that the piece had been tested at the assay office and found to have met the standard of purity for sterling (92.75 percent pure silver alloyed with 7.25 percent strengthening copper).
		A third mark was the date mark, a letter of the alphabet used for the twelve-month period during which the piece was assayed.
		Altogether there were twenty large and small assay offices in the nineteenth century, each with its own system of date letters.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/19es/hd_19es.htm (909 words)

	Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush (Chapter 6)
		The U.S. Assay Office has undergone several minor alterations, including a narrow addition featuring arched windows similar to rest of the building added to the south side of the building.
		The building that housed the U.S. Assay Office was erected in 1886 by Thomas Prosch, a secretary of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and owner of the Post-Intelligencer, for use as an entertainment hall and office building.
		The U.S. Assay Office is historically significant as a fine example of commercial cast-iron and masonry architecture, and because of its association with the Klondike Gold Rush, an event that contributed to the economic growth of Seattle.
	www.nps.gov /klse/hrs/hrs6a1.htm (479 words)

	Hallmark: A History of the London Assay Office by Forbes
		Concentrating exclusively on the London Assay Office which, as an integral part of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, is the oldest hallmarking authority in the United Kingdom, the author guides the reader through the beginnings of the system which borrowed the best practice from the Continent and thereafter developed its own unique character.
		Suspension from the assay and touch', effectively taking away their livelihood, was rarely used but the threat of it could be used to force the goldsmith to conform.
		Many of the workers in the Assay Office had formerly traded as silversmiths and goldsmiths and names such as Garthorne, Pyne and Hennell will be familiar to those with knowledge of antique silver.
	www.spencermarks.com /html/hallmark.html (832 words)

	The Goldsmiths' Company - The London Assay Office
		The testing and marking of jewellery and silverware to guarantee the precious metal content of an article has been carried out by the Goldsmiths' Company since 1300.
		The process is known today as hallmarking, which originally meant 'marked at Goldsmiths' Hall'.
		The techniques of sampling, testing (assaying) of the precious metal content (fineness) and marking have altered over the centuries, but the principle of providing a guarantee for manufacturers, importers, retailers, and the eventual purchaser, remains the same.
	www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk /assayoffice (187 words)

	Boulder County Assay Office Museum
		The Board of County Commissioners formally dedicated the James F. Bailey Assay Office Museum on Oct. 23, 2006.
		The assay office was the place where prospectors would take their ore samples to find out whether or not they had potentially "struck it rich." So important was the determination of the assayer that the results of their work could, and often did, make or break a prospector.
		The Bailey family owned the Wall Street Assay Office from 1907 to 2001 when it was purchased by Boulder County.
	www.boulder-county.net /openspace/resources/culhistory/wallstreet/assay_museum.htm (293 words)

	California Gold Rush Assayers
		At the time there were a few other firms that would assay gold dust into coins, but those assayers did not have the same reputation for quality and accurate gold content in their coins as did Moffat and Company.
		The Assay office was authorized by the U.S. Congress in late 1850 to assay gold dust, and coin the dust into ingots or coins of a standard fineness and weight.
		In 1852 the United States Assay Office of Gold (USAOG) operated under a bill which allowed California to issue ingots and coins to support the booming economy until a branch mint could be established.
	www.reisbord.com /goldrusassayers.htm (1130 words)

	Edinburgh Assay Office Order Confirmation Act 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Provisional Order to amend section 16 of the Hallmarking Act 1973 in its application to the Edinburgh Assay Office; to extend the functions of the Office; and for other purposes incidental thereto.
		WHEREAS—(1) The Edinburgh Assay Office (hereinafter referred to as "the Incorporation"), of which the full name is The Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh, has been in existence for more than four hundred years:
		This Order may be cited as the Edinburgh Assay Office Order 1996.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/locact96/Ukla_19960001_en_3.htm (1107 words)

	The Cyprus Assay Office - Organisation for the hallmarking of Precious metals
		The Cyprus Assay Office (CAO) is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.
		CAO is committed to providing its customers with Assaying, Hallmarking and Quality control services in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Cyprus standards and the Cyprus Hallmarking Law and regulations.
		The Cyprus Assay Office is a member of the Association of European Assay Offices and also an observer member of the Convention on the Control and Marking of Articles of Precious Metals.
	www.assay.org.cy /home.htm (350 words)

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