0 present participle of hallmark --
1 to put an official mark on an object made of gold or silver --
Every single one of the countries wanted to establish a practical and sensible method of regulating hallmarking.
The primary purpose of hallmarking, as we have already heard, is to protect the public.
But hallmarking is not only a tradition: it is also a form of consumer protection, as she said, which is thoroughly modern in concept.
We are now introducing platinum to hallmarking and it is more than timely that we should do so.
I turn now, for a few moments, to hallmarking.
The hallmarking of that standard is a splendid mark.
Therefore, a slight but crucial alteration has been made in the method by which hallmarking is applied in this country.
Our hallmarking law—which is mostly of the 14th and 15th centuries, is quite incapable of being understood.
