Harringtons ingots are right up there at the top of my favorites list. I’m a huge fan of the beauty and care that went into producing these — the pour lines on Harringtons bars are some of the finest you’ll find on any vintage silver.
Harringtons Metallurgists Pty Ltd was an Australian refiner based near Melbourne. Collector accounts date their start to the 1970s, and they were still pouring into the 90s — they earned LBMA accreditation in 1991, and Golden West Refining Corporation acquired the company’s assets in 1995, which marked the end of the line.
Their cast ingots came in a wide range of sizes: 5 oz, 10 oz, 50 oz, 100 oz, and metric classes from 500 grams up to 2500 grams. They’re stamped FINE SILVER, BULLION 9998 with the circular Harringtons logo, and many carry serial numbers — dated examples from 1982 are documented. Watch for DCL (Darlington Commodities) and RHA (Robert Howes & Associates) counterstamps on the larger bars; those are the genuinely scarce variants.
Harringtons also offered refining services to the public, pouring odd-weight ingots from customer-supplied scrap silver. Those pieces typically lack serial numbers, so an unnumbered odd-weight Harringtons is likely one of these private-refining bars rather than a standard production piece.
They are some of the most sought after pieces in vintage silver, and their smaller ingots are some of the highest per oz vintage silver that you will come across.
And for the grand finale, a trifecta of Australian goodness. These are phenomenal examples and extremely rare.
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