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Hallmarks include information not only about the precious metal and fineness, but the country from which the item was tested and marked. Some hallmarks can reveal even more information, e.g. the assay office, size of the object marked, year the item was hallmarked - referred to as a date mark (also known as date letter). [2]
The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 (41 U.S.C. 81) is an Act of the United States which requires some federal contractors and all federal grantees to agree that they will provide drug-free workplaces as a precondition of receiving a contract or grant from a Federal agency. [1]
DALZ - D and A Leasing, Inc. DANX - Dana Railcare; DAPX - Dairyland Power Cooperative; DARU - Dart Container Line, Inc. DARZ - Dart Intermodal, Inc. DATU - Dart Container Line, Inc. DATX - DATX Associates; DAVX - W. R. Grace and Company (Conn. Davison Chemical Division) DAWX - D.A. Walmsley and Company
Note: Marks ending in U are for container owners; marks ending in X are not common carriers; marks ending in Z are for trailers without flanged wheels. All other marks are of common-carrier railroads.
Assay offices are institutions set up to assay (test the purity of) precious metals. This is often done to protect consumers from buying fake items. Upon successful completion of an assay (i.e. if the metallurgical content is found be equal or better than that claimed by the maker and it otherwise conforms to the prevailing law) the assay offices typically stamp a hallmark on the item to ...
A silver object that is to be sold commercially is, in most countries, stamped with one or more silver hallmarks indicating the purity of the silver, the mark of the manufacturer or silversmith, and other (optional) markings to indicate the date of manufacture and additional information about the piece.
The Della Robbia mark is usually handwritten on the base of pieces with a ship device, and often the initials of the designer and decorator, and sometimes the date. Example initials include: C for Charles Collis; C.A.W. for Cassandia Annie Walker; C.M. for Carlo Manzoni; E.W. and E.M.W. for Emily Margaret Wood; L.W. for Liza Wilkins; R.B for ...
Charles L. Long and Leslie D. Long were the chairman and president of the new operation, while Larry Hovater was Secretary/Treasurer. At the height of the 1979-1980 silver boom where it traded above $50.00 per ounce, the firm was purchasing $2M a week in scrap, 1000 ounce delivery bars and contracts for 90% silver coins.