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Assay Disaster
Dear All,
I have no idea what to do. I just received 23 items returned from London with the wrong sponsors mark! Half a pound of silver scrap in my opinion.
orders will be late, new metal is worth twice scrap eta. etc.
Unfortunately the office was closed when i got home, will have to call them monday.
Any ideas, suggestions, has this happened to you you ?
Devastated, frankly i should be mad, but frankly i just want to cry
Julian
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OMG, that's dreadful. To be honest, my hallmark is so small that it's quite difficult to read the sponsor's mark and for all I know, the same thing may have happened to me without me knowing.
I expect Steve from the Assay Office may pop in some time to give you some advice.
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Oh no :-( Is it lasered or punched?
Steve is fab with advice, hopefully he'll be around later.
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Laser, i only have one punch size
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That's dreadful And I suspect it will be Tuesday before you get any sort of answer.
I hope they can put it right for you - you certainly shouldn't be in a position of having to scrap anything.
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3d or 2d? Engraving, punch marks and the likes can be filled in. Just takes time to do it (and dress the surface back).
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Peter,
not hitting at you , but who the hell pays? will they do it ? we get drummed in by law, law, law and then this
sorry peter , i just don't know what to think
J
Last edited by Julian; 02-05-2014 at 07:12 PM.
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Nothing to apologise for. I would certainly hope they will sort it - but it *can* be sorted. Actually, thinking about it it has to be the assay office if I've understood things; a hallmark even erroneous can't be defaced...?
The timing is sod's law though.
My last batch I forgot to spec 3d, which is irksome.
BTW - a PUK can do the work too!
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Peter,
I never specified. but the resuts are odd. I send in 5 chokers 4 are 3d and 1 2d ???? 3d is illegible if I did not know the London make i would never spot it. believe me some of my collection has 100 year old Moscow marks and that needs imagination! ( plan to photograph it this weekends for you to see) 100 years from now with wear a tear this mark might as well not be there .
J
Last edited by Julian; 02-05-2014 at 07:27 PM.
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