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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3061038, member: 2844&quot;]What do you base that statement on? I don&#039;t know of any European country that would be so sloppy as to not test before they punched an official mark.</p><p>And I certainly wouldn&#039;t expect that level of carelessness from Sweden. Why, they are almost as bureaucratic as we Dutch are.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As it says below, the import mark is only applied to gold of at least .750, with the exception of watch cases, which are allowed to be at least .585. The tolerance is .005.</p><p>Are you saying they accepted, assayed and stamped without checking the metal content?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]292022[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from the link you yourself posted when you said that [USER=301]@komokwa[/USER] didn&#039;t understand what was going on. The link is to a leaflet on present day Swedish marking:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The control mark indicates that an independent inspection body (assay office) has assessed the amount of the precious metal (fineness) of the article.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Are they fibbing? Or do you suggest that they only started to check metal content on january 1st 2000, and before that they were either corrupt or they had no idea what they were doing?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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