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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 181159, member: 44&quot;]Welcome to the forums!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not up on British gold hallmarking, but suspect it is similar to their silver hallmarks. That 1st mark/punch is a leopard/lioin head meaning the assay office was in London rather than Sheffield. The 2nd mark looks like an &quot;H&quot; in a square punch with clipped corners. With London being the city of assay, this &quot;H&quot; is probably the date letter for 1943. The 3rd punch is a crown. This crown is probably what made you think Sheffield. A crown is the **silver** assay mark for Sheffield. This crown along with the 4th punch of &quot;18&quot; denotes are the finesse/purity for 18 carat in England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scroll down to page 11 &quot;Historic UK Hallmarks prior to 1975&quot; to see the gold assay marks and the crown with 18 marks:</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.britishhallmarkingcouncil.gov.uk/publications/hallmarks2.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.britishhallmarkingcouncil.gov.uk/publications/hallmarks2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.britishhallmarkingcouncil.gov.uk/publications/hallmarks2.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now as to the marker&#039;s mark of &quot;JG&quot; in an oval it may??? be for J. Gilmore? A mark like this with a dot after the J. was registered by him in 1938. 1938 is in the right time frame for a 1943 date of assay.</p><p><a href="http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/London-JG-JK.html#JG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/London-JG-JK.html#JG" rel="nofollow">http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/London-JG-JK.html#JG</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Please wait for others to chime to see if they agree with the above!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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