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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver, post: 2292724, member: 6202&quot;]I&#039;d like to add a little information that I have found recently in an interesting article on Egyptian hallmarking by Azza Fahmy entitled &#039;An everlasting lustre: A thousand years of monitoring Egypts jewellery industry&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>She states that in the modern period (my term, not hers) three laws were passed regarding hallmarking in Egypt, viz:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. In 1847 a law known as the Gashanjy Law was passed during the reign of Khedive Abbas I.&nbsp; This regulated the standards of gold and silver, and indicated how metals should be marked. It appears, however, that it did not make marking compulsory.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. In the reign of Khedive Abbas Helmy II (1892-1914) a second law was passed that regulated the hallmarking process, and stipulated standards in gold and silver.&nbsp; The silver standards were, respectively, 90/80/60/45.&nbsp; Unfortunately, she does not give the actual year in which the act was enacted and brought into force.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. In the reign of Sultan Hussein Kamel (1914-1917) a third law was passed &#039;which prohibited the buying and selling of any precious metals that were not stamped by the Egyptian assay office&#039;.&nbsp; Hence it seems that it is only from the time of the third law that marking became compulsory.&nbsp; Unfortunately, she does not state the actual year in which this law was enacted and brought into force.&nbsp; Possibly it was 1916, since one of the earlier comments (above) indicates that pre-1916 Egyptian silver was not marked.&nbsp; She also mentions that after a time the 45 standard was abolished.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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