Make sure you don't miss out! Tickets are selling out fast for the British Silver Week Silver Visit on Weds 20th June please call 0871 871 6020 or email silver@theassayoffice.co.uk to book your place. Places are £10 each and are limited so early booking is advisable.
British Silver Week has blossomed into the Festival of Silver and is once again holding its Press Launch at the Pangolin Fine Art Gallery in London in May. The Birmingham Assay Office are pleased to sponsor the participation of five silversmiths who have recently qualified from the Birmingham School Of Jewellery.
Left to right - Simon Pattison, Jemma Daniels, Drew Markou
Christopher Hay, Drew Markou, Jemma Da.... More >
posted: in Heritage News
May 18, 2012
The British Silver Week 2012 Festival of Silver has launched at Pangolin London Fine Art Gallery in Kings Place and will be running until Friday 18th May.
The Birmingham Assay office is proud to sponsor the event and Business Manager Marie Brennan and Marketing Manager Penny Parkes attended on Monday and remarked that they were 'pleased to see that Birmingham Silver smiths were well represented at the event.'
From Left to right: Esther Lord, Drew Markou, Jemma Daniels, Marie Brennan, Ryan McCleanThe exhibition features work for sale from many of Britain's finest contemporary silversmiths including Esther Lord, Drew Markou, Jemma Daniels and Ryan McClean.
To see some pictures from.... 
IDEA Birmingham - a business-university collaboration promoting design-driven innovation - recently announced the shortlisted nominations in its inaugural Birmingham Made Me Design Awards.
The Awards ceremony will take place on 22nd June 2012 in Birmingham's Mailbox and will be the culmination of Birmingham's first week long Design Expo in over 100 years. The Birmingham Assay Office will join around 100 other exhibitors from business and education as well as a 'Design Fringe' programme including over 20 art and design seminars, events and activities. The EXPO provides an ambitious line up looking to stimulate fresh thinking. The Expo is Free for all and open to everyone.
As w.... 
The Birmingham Assay is delighted to be nominated for the inaugural Birmingham made me brand award which is to take place on Friday 22 June 6-6.30PM at THE MAILBOX BIRMINGHAM
The Birmingham Made Me Awards Ceremony includes Best Midlands Brand, Innovation or Radical Design, alongside awards for Emerging Brand and Collaborative Design between education and business.
FROM 15th MAY Please vote for The Birmingham Assay Office - From the oldest form of consumer protection to the latest innovative gemmological APP - this organisation has had for nearly 250 years, Independence, Integrity and Innovation stamped on its Heart. It truly does bear the Hallmark of Birmingham.
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An educational institute should be at the heart of its community, according to the Principal of University College Birmingham (UCB) – who is in support of a new initiative to improve the Jewellery Quarter.
The Jewellery Quarter BID, which is being led by the Jewellery Quarter Development Trust (JQDT) in partnership with Birmingham City Council, aims to attract investment, increase visitor numbers and encourage a more vibrant economy, while making the area a better place in which to work, invest and live.
Over 500 local businesses are being asked to vote to support the initiative, which will see companies with premises with a rateable value of £10,000 and above pay an annual le.... 
A new initiative for Jewellery Quarter businesses to fund improvements in their area is music to the ears of a long established local venue.
The Jewellery Quarter BID, which is being led by the Jewellery Quarter Development Trust (JQDT) in partnership with Birmingham City Council, aims to attract investment, increase visitor numbers and encourage a more vibrant economy, while making the area a better place in which to work, invest and live.
Over 500 local businesses are being asked to vote to support the initiative, which will see companies with premises with a rateable value of £10,000 or above pay an annual levy of 2% to fund additional investment for the benefit of the whole ar.... 
Kay Alexander is urging businesses to ensure the Jewellery Quarter remains the jewel in the city’s crown by voting ‘yes’ for a Business Improvement District (BID) in the area.
The Jewellery Quarter BID, which is being led by the Jewellery Quarter Development Trust (JQDT) in partnership with Birmingham City Council, aims to attract investment, increase visitor numbers and encourage a more vibrant economy, while making the area a better place in which to work, invest and live.
Over 500 local businesses are being asked to vote to support the initiative, which will see companies with premises with a rateable value of £10,000 and above pay an annual levy of 2% to fund additional.... ![_60125488_silverpotsforonline[1]](http://www.assaynews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/60125488_silverpotsforonline1-150x150.jpg "_60125488_silverpotsforonline[1]")
Increasing numbers of people have been selling off the family silver amid rocketing prices, according to Birmingham jewellery traders.
Terry Ann Stephenson, of Lois in the city's Jewellery Quarter, said the high prices meant many items were more valuable sold as scrap rather than for their antique value.
"It's such a shame, but at the end of the day it's just a sign of the times," she said.
"You know people are struggling for money and it's just a way of getting money together to pay bills."
UK silver prices, which were below £4 per ounce in 2003, reached an all-time high of nearly £30 per ounce last year.
The price is currently about £19 per ounce, but selling old silv.... 
Help - Who Stole Our Plaque ? Some one has stolen The Birmingham Assay Office "Assay Office" Plaque from the front entrance of our building. We are all devastated. Please can you help track the Plaque down. Here is a photo of the Plaque as it was in situ and a photo of the empty space which greeted us all this morning......
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A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO VISIT
THE BIRMINGHAM ASSAY OFFICE & VIEW ITS HISTORIC SILVER COLLECTION & ENJOY AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY BRITISH SILVERWARE
- BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY -
The Birmingham Assay Office in collaboration with British Silver Week is pleased to announce that it is uniquely opening its doors to the General Public and offering limited places on its popular Silver Collection Visit programme – on ONE DAY ONLY
British Silver Week has blossomed into the Festival of Silver and The Birmingham Assay Office is pleased to sponsor the participation of five silversmiths who have recently qualified from Birmingham Scho.... 
6.30 p.m. on Monday 30th April 2012 at the Jewellery Quarter Conference Centre, 10 Vyse Street, Birmingham B18 6LT.
The rising price of gold has led to an increase in the theft of jewellery and the Asian community is being targeted in particular as 22ct gold becomes an attractive proposition to the criminal fraternity.
The British Jewellers’ Association (BJA) and The Birmingham Assay Office are working together to help the Asian jewellery community in Birmingham to address these threats by inviting you to attend a Seminar at 6.30 p.m. on Monday 30th April 2012 at the Jewellery Quarter Conference Centre, 10 Vyse Street, Birmingham B18 6LT.
The seminar is expected to last about .... 
From the company that made AnchorCert Gemstone Laboratory's AMAZING cake for their 10th anniversary -
Caroline's Cake Company Cupcake Decorating Workshop
Saturday 26th May : 2pm—4pm
Birmingham Botanical Gardens : Study Centre B15 3TR
£25 per person (6 baked cupcakes provided ready to decorate)
Limited places so to book please email caroline@carolinescakecompany.co.uk
Take your 6 ‘naked’ cupcakes and make them the best dressed in town!
Held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens : Study Centre — free admission to the beautiful gardens plus free car parking
Learn how to: Pipe buttercream — Mix colours — Roll out sugarpaste — Use .... 
BOOK A VISIT OR SEMINAR TODAY*
The Collection features over 1400 objects, many of them spectacular examples of the work of Birmingham’s most celebrated silversmiths.
The Birmingham Assay Office offers a range of guided tours for recognised groups. Open days and special hallmarking seminars are also available for the general public.
The seminars are designed to broaden the attendees’ knowledge of hallmarking and provide a rareopportunity to look behind the scenesat the world’s largest assay office.
*charges apply
For more information call 08718716020 e-mail: silver@theassayoffice.co.uk or visit www.theassayoffice.co.uk.... 
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ANCHORCERT GEM LAB IS DELIGHTED TO CONTRATULATE ONE DIRECTION ON THEIR CURRENT NUMBER ONE SELLING ALBULM IN THE USA. THE BOYS RECENTLY ROCKED THE BHANGRA STYLE WHILST CELEBRATING ANCHORCERT GEM LAB’s 10th ANNIVERSARY. They thrilled guests by joining in the Bhangra dancing entertainment marking the first decade of the UK’s premier gemmological service, based in the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.
AnchorCert Diamond & G.... 
Before companies like Brandauer were established, people were writing with birds’ feathers sharpened to a point.
Celebrating its 150th anniversary and originally manufacturing pen nibs and now precision components and stampings sold all over the world, the family owned engineering company introduced The Princess Royal to its Newtown, Birmingham factory.
Brandauer was given the royal seal of approval as Her Royal Highness Princess Anne was introduced to 11 former employees, existing staff that have more than 550 years service between them, recently qualified apprentices and the family owners, which included the co-founder’s four great-great-grandchildren. She then viewed an exhi.... 
