JMSI Stamp on a 10oz bar

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Meltdown
Meltdown Posts: 9,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Anybody recognize this bar maker? It's a 10oz poured piece.

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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Never heard of this brand. Where is the fineness and weight markings? Could be a homemade bar. It's easy to buy a letter punch set, a mold, a furnace, and some silver shot.

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  • Meltdown
    Meltdown Posts: 9,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sorry. Photobucket was being difficult. Here's the obverse.
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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Now that I see the front of the bar it does appear to be a legitimate silver bar. I googled "JMSI Silver Bar" but nothing came up. Anyone know what a mystery bar like this would be worth?

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  • RyansRust
    RyansRust Posts: 179 ✭✭✭
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    I'd head over to allengelhard and ask around. Considering JM has been around since 1851... They are Ltd but were they ever just inc.? Johnson Matthey Silver Incorporated.

    On their site it lists---- In 1919 acquired Johnson Matthey and Co. Inc. - USA, Johnson Matthey & Co. - Birmingham Branch, Hayden Park Works.

  • gsa1fan
    gsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
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    Johnson Matheney silver ingot is my WAG
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • gsa1fan
    gsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
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    Looks like a industrial/dentist type bar. The stamped letters & numbers look modern day 1960's up~is that still modern?
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • Meltdown
    Meltdown Posts: 9,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks for the info and speculation.
  • BlackBeard
    BlackBeard Posts: 1,064 ✭
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    The stamp on the obverse matches the NCM (Nevada Coin Mart) 10oz bar. Search NCM on ebay to see one. Looks exactly like it except lacking the NCM.
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  • Meltdown
    Meltdown Posts: 9,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: BlackBeard
    The stamp on the obverse matches the NCM (Nevada Coin Mart) 10oz bar. Search NCM on ebay to see one. Looks exactly like it except lacking the NCM.


    You're right. That plus sign set high is identical... as well as the font style, t's just missing the Nevada shaped stamp... interesting.
  • renman95
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    comrade jmski make homemade bar, forget k...hahaha.
  • jmski52
    jmski52 Posts: 24,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Hah! So that's where that bar went! That was the bar I must've made before I take remedial spelling course.
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