Help Identifying Vintage Silver Bar

[mr1030]

I know quite a few of you collect vintage bars, so maybe someone can help identify this one as I cant find any refiners marks that I recognize.  This bar was brought to me by a co-worker who thought I might get a kick in seeing it, and might be able to provide some information about it.  She said that it was her grandmothers, who had passed away,  but didn't have any info beyond that.  I have tested it with my Sigma Verifier and the surface scans do come back as .999.  The bar looks familiar, so I might have seen a picture of something similar at some point,   but I can't place my finger on it.  Any help would be appreciated.

[5huggy]

Try trawling through this website buddy 👍

https://allengelhard.com/

[mr1030]

No luck.  Checked thru all the refiners they had listed.  But thanks for the link.  It's a great site.

[sixgun]

i can remember watching some of the old timer videos on youtube where it was said that during the 1980's there were a lot of micro-mints sprang up (in America). Bars exist which have names on which have completely disappeared and are hard and sometimes impossible to track down. My guess is this is one of those mini-mint offerings. i have a few bars which i struggled to find and have names on them. There are no 'trade names' on your bar so the task looks problematic.

i think your best best is to put these photos on US based forums where old timers might hang out and might just recognise what you have. 

[STONE]

Seems odd that the maker goes through all the trouble of the number and fineness stamping and then doesn't put so much as a makers mark on it. You could also get some tarnish remover and clean it up its possible something is covered up. Ask where the grandmother was from. A country of origin may help narrow the search. Google "pictures of silver 100 ounce bars" as well. Without a MM its going to be hard....

[DoubleEagle]

Looks like an eagle to the left of the 100 Troy ... in the 3rd picture. Eagle is rotated 135 degrees CW and lightly struck after the metal had cooled off some. There is olive branch and claw possible there too in what would be right claw. 

Also something scratched into metal that looks like letters on the same surface, to the far left of the same 3rd picture, about mid-way, just below white area. Looks like two N's there [?NN?]

[STONE]

Try some twinkle instead of a buffing wheel. Good stuff!

https://silverguard.com/collections/silver-polish-and-cleaning-cloths/products/twinkle-silver-polish-kit

[DoubleEagle]

Ooh does that really work? Says wash off after using; LOL might have some power after all.