whilst browsing ebay for silver padlocks, I came across someone selling those tiffany spring ones who claimed they were guaranteed silver as they had a 925 hallmark. I asked them if they meant if they meant a 925 stamp or if they were actually hallmarked. They said they were stamped 925 but they could hallmark it for an extra cost. I then suggested that they were misleading the public because a hallmark is struck at an assay office. They then countered by saying it wasn't misleading and it was a hallmark. It makes me fume the way some sellers continue to conflate hallmarks and 925 stamps. I would have thought that a large seller of findings in Birmingham should be so offing ignorant! [/rant]