The Laboratory at The Birmingham Assay Office is seeing the impact of the recent high gold prices at first hand.
It is not only the general public who are delving into their jewellery boxes to find long forgotten or broken treasures which may now have escalated significantly in value.
The jewellery trade is also clearing out its drawers and safes, as evidence by this tub of fine jewellery, one of several submitted to The Laboratory at The Birmingham Assay Office for melting…
