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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2292915, member: 5833&quot;]The best Internet guide to Egyptian marks is the one I wrote for eBay.&nbsp; Then they took all of them down &amp; now favor influencer type things rather than informational.</p><p><br /></p><p>A condensed guide to Egyptian hallmarks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Egyptian fineness marks are written using the Eastern Arabic system which, unlike words, is read left to right.&nbsp;&nbsp; This keypad from Wiki serves as a crib sheet:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]258160[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Zeroes are dots.&nbsp; Much of the time they use only one, so writing 90 for 900.&nbsp; Sometimes 2 dots are written one over the other, <b>: </b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most tourist silver jewellery is 800 silver. I have seen the dot put between the legs of the 8.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]258171[/ATTACH] (Keneh assay office)</p><p><br /></p><p>Most tourist jewellery is marked as 12K, although have had a number of sellers tell me their clearly marked piece tests as 18K.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]258172[/ATTACH] 12K&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]258173[/ATTACH] 18K</p><p><br /></p><p>The 21K mark looks like the 12 in reverse order.</p><p><br /></p><p>Above the fineness number is a mark for the assay office.&nbsp; Most stuff I see has the never perfect Cairo mark.&nbsp; There used to be an on line source that included the assay office marks.&nbsp; At some point they took down a lot of the detailed info they had.&nbsp; Suspect they ran afoul of the Hallmark Institute.&nbsp; I do not have a chart but [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] may have it in a book?</p><p><br /></p><p>National marks for silver are a cat before 1946; a lotus flower after.&nbsp; The national mark for gold is an ibis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Date letters are Roman before 1940; Arabic after.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]258174[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]258177[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]258175[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]258176[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p># Egypt Egyptian marks hallmarks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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