I go to one or two craft fairs every month, get quite a look of surprise when people are told that we just buy silver sheet and wire and make it from that, and also the finer silver chains, its a "craft market" for goodness sake, its not a craft if you just buy stuff and sell it on. Our stuff does comply with the law in that respect, because we weigh all the finished items before we either earmark for selling or stamping. The only bugbear I have is that the cost of the return postage from Assay Office to home. I send it up for about £4 and they send the same things back by post and charge £12, which pushes the price up if you are only sending a few items, which we do, as its a hobby not a full time job. Inevitably we try to keep the items less than the accepted weight to keep costs down, some of the items that are special we get hallmarked and any commissions are too, but on the whole although I would love to send everything up, the cost to us is prohibitive, alternative is to put the prices up and dont sell anything, which eventually would stop my hobby which I thoroughly enjoy, and of course the bonus of being able to buy nice shiny tools.
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