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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 1470458, member: 111&quot;]What British hallmarks tell you is that a piece is of guaranteed fineness, who had it assayed, what assay office did it, the date of the assay, and sometimes that the duty was paid, very useful information - but if that refashioned piece was taken in for a new assay, they would deface or erase the old marks and re-stamp it, and depending on the execution of the defacement/erasure, possibly lose the information pertaining to those old marks.&nbsp; So essentially, you now have a piece that did have evidence of age, still part of its history even if unfortunately clobbered (and at the very least, with unnecessary defacement), now bearing new hallmarks - suspect that might cause some confusion...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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