The education of a Scottish divine was thought incomplete, a graduate in divinity, however brilliant and devout, could not get an important charge, if he had not received the hallmark and consecration of a German theological faculty.
"German Problems and Personalities"
Charles Sarolea
hallmark is folk-etymology for the medieval Half-mark.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley
It certainly was a very merry place, and if its presiding geniuses were engaged in conscious philanthropy, the blighting hallmark was conspicuous by its absence.
"Marm Lisa"
Kate Douglas Wiggin