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Assay mark on imported plate.
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All gold and silver plate which shall be imported from foreign parts, and which shall be sent to any assay office in the United Kingdom at which gold and silver plate is now or shall at any time hereafter be by law required to be assayed, and which when so sent shall be then assayed, tested, stamped, and marked, shall, in addition to the marks for the time being used at such assay office for the purpose of marking British plate, be marked with the further mark of the letter F on an oval escutcheon, in order to denote that such gold or silver plate was imported from foreign parts, and was not wrought or made in England, Scotland, or Ireland; and the warders and officers in such and every such assay office, and the persons employed by them, shall have power to impress and mark, and shall impress and mark, such further and additional mark before such plate shall be delivered out from such assay office.
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[1As to exemption of foreign plate which, in the opinion of the Commissioners of Customs, may be properly described as hand-chased, inlaid, bronzed or filigree work of Oriental pattern, see 47 & 48 Vict. c. 62. s. 4.] |
