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Jewelry stamps for the sake of your businessYour customer’s guarantee: a metal’s hallmark Have you seen the 925 stamped hallmark in the inner rim of rings or behind pendants? That’s a standard quality control hallmark used in the jewelry industry to designate the silver quality of a specific jewel. You can use different hallmarks depending on the quality of the metal you’re using in your jewelry. Below is a ring made by
Steven Brixner,
hallmarked in the inner shank.
Hallmarks are impressions made on the precious metal using a special punch bearing the number (the “hallmark”) of the material being used. This gives your customers a guarantee that you’re using that silver quality and no other. Jewelry buyers are on the hunt for hallmarks as it’s been a tradition since antiquity to purchase jewelry with a quality hallmark. Compliance with hallmarks is obviously part of our ethical and professional practice too. As in the
gold hallmark article,
silver quality may be marked upon your jewelry by different means.
Different alternatives for hallmarking your silver jewelryYou can stamp the quality on the back of pendants, on the inner shank of rings and on to clasps and other flat findings.You can also purchase silver tags with 925 or 950 marks to add to your jewelry. Either way your stamps should be made out of heat-treated tool steel. Check the accuracy or clarity of the stamped image pressed on the metal. Stamping hallmarks onto your jewelry can be a bit fuzzy and doing that the first couple of times can be a bit fearsome. For your convenience you can also purchase stamping pliers, a fast, simple and effective way of marking rings or flat pieces of jewelry. How to stamp your jewelry?Watch this 7 minute video about stamping on metal.It may be a bit too long for you, but it shows you in detail all the tools needed and shows you step-by-step how to stamp. In the video they use letter stamps but you can repeat the procedure to simply stamp your silver hallmark. Practice on a copper sheet of metal and try to get your hallmark printed onto the metal with one single blow. Tip: Sometimes, when you repeat the whacking you may end up having a “moving” hallmark impressed on your metal, and when that happens on a finished piece of jewelry it’s maddening. It’s also not rare to stamp your hallmark upside down so triple check every time. Practice makes perfect. Hope you find it useful!
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