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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4476306, member: 2844&quot;]Legislation in Italy regarding the marking of precious metal items is not the same as that of the USA, and never has been.</p><p><br /></p><p>Italy has a much older and far more extensive tradition of marking than the USA does, and it has government-controlled assay offices.</p><p>Official assaying in the various Italian kingdoms and Papal states started many centuries before the USA ever even considered any legislation regarding marking of jewellery and precious metal items. In most cases guild-controlled marking began in the Middle Ages. The guilds in turn were controlled by the local or state authorities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Italy is now in the process of joining the Hallmarking Convention, which means they follow hallmarking requirements of the Convention, which again are more extensive than the legislation of a country that doesn&#039;t have any government-controlled assaying of jewellery and precious objects.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, there are many examples worldwide of marking of both silver and gold on the one piece. It means that both finenesses are accounted for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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