Silver Ingot Info

Company Name: Messers Manilal Chimanlal & Co.

Company Location: Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Company Information: Not much information is available on when exactly this company was established but there are a few sources stating that this company was publicly incorporated in 1955. Both Manilal and Chimanlal are popular last names in India so this business was probably started by people from both the Manilal and Chimanlal families.

(Accessed from Economic Times News Article on March 30, 2021)

Here's a note from The United States National Museum: The Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1963 showing the donation of a 5 Tola Manilal Chimanlal Silver piece made to the national collections.

Although the exact years of production for these bars is not known, all these bars feature the map of undivided India on one side so these are probably minted before 1947 when the partition happened. Also, there are 5 Tolas and 10 Tolas bars with the H.M. Mint (His Majesty's Mint) crown logo which was renamed to India Government Mint in 1947 and this is one more reason to believe that these bars were produced during the British-India rule before independence.

There are a few similarities between bars produced my Manilal Chimanlal and Devkaran Nanjee. His Majesty's mint (H.M. Mint) made bars for both these companies indicating that both these companies produced bars during British-India rule. Both these companies were based out of Mumbai and both the companies have logos in the same style:

Known sizes: 5 Tolas, 10 Tolas, 25 Tolas, 100 Tolas

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