Board Mementoes · By Commissionमंडल

Board meeting gifts. Numbered silver, one chair, one room.

Quarterly takeaways, director retirements, exit-day runs. Numbered pieces in 999 pure silver — twelve chairs, twelve pieces, the chair's number one. Hand-finished in Delhi NCR.

₹12,000+
Per piece · entry
8
Minimum · numbered run
14–28
Days · lead time
999
Pure silver · hallmarked
Brief us on a Board RunCorporate Catalogue
Editorial · twelve numbered silver pieces laid out on linen, roman numerals visible on undersides
Working format
Numbered Run
I/XII to XII/XII · chair's number one
For quarterly & retirement boards · NCR
01 · The boardroom case for silver

The takeaway that doesn't end up in the boardroom drawer.

Board meetings have a memory problem. The pre-read is forgotten by next quarter. The minutes get filed and unread. The acrylic plaque from the last off-site is, on a generous estimate, in a storage cupboard at the Oberoi. Silver behaves differently. A 50g coin in 999, with the quarter cast on the face, sits on the director's desk — not in a drawer, not in storage.

The boardroom also asks for a specific kind of restraint. Logo-front-and-centre acrylic looks like vendor-day giveaway. Heavy crystal feels like a sales conference. Silver carries the right register — ceremonial without being loud, personal without being intimate. The piece is for a director with a fiduciary duty, not a customer with a renewal coming up.

And the numbering does real work. A board of twelve, numbered I/XII through XII/XII, with the chair's piece marked and slightly heavier — this physicalises the structure of the room. Each director knows their piece is theirs. The chair knows the room. The registrar can verify the numbering against the studio register a decade from now.

999/1000
Pure silver
BIS
Hallmarked
Numbered
Edition register
02 · Recommended pieces

Six pieces our board clients keep returning to.

From the quarterly coin to the retirement commemorative — each is a starting point. Briefs are built to the meeting and the room.

Quarter coin · 50g 999 · walnut sleeve
01 · Quarterly · takeaway

The quarter coin

A 50g 999 silver coin with the company crest cast into the face and the quarter — Q3 FY25, the meeting date — engraved on the back. In a walnut sleeve with the director's name on the inside cover.

Sculpted commemorative · marble plinth · 300g+
02 · Director · retirement

The sculpted commemorative

A 300–400g sculpted paperweight in 999 silver, set on a black marble plinth. Tenure dates cast in relief on one face, a hand-engraved line from the chair on the other.

Silver gavel · walnut handle · engraved strike
03 · Chair · tenure end

The gavel commemorative

A working silver gavel, hand-finished head, walnut handle. Engraved with chairmanship dates and the company name on the strike face. Stands on its own block.

Silver seal box · crest cast lid · monogrammed
04 · Independent director · joining

The seal box

A weighted silver box with the company crest cast into the lid, monogrammed inside with the joiner's name. The piece that arrives the day the consent letter is signed.

Cast desk-plaque · raised relief · 200g 999
05 · Board · anniversary

The desk-plaque

A 200g 999 plaque with the founding date and the anniversary year cast in raised relief. Engraved on the underside with the board name. Sits flat on the office desk.

Numbered set · 150–250g per piece · matched run
06 · Exit · acquisition close

The numbered run

A matched set of 8–12 cast silver pieces, numbered I/XII through XII/XII on the underside. Chair's piece slightly heavier. The deal date engraved across all, with each director's tenure on the back.

03 · How we work

Three weeks to the meeting. Five steps. Twelve numbered pieces.

We work directly with the company secretary or the chair's EA. The numbering register is shared before production opens.

Start a board brief
  1. Day 1

    Board brief

    WhatsApp the company secretary or the chair's office. NDA on request. Twenty minutes covers occasion, headcount, budget envelope.

  2. Day 2–4

    Direction sketches

    Three sketches across coin, paperweight, and desk-plaque. Numbering plan attached — chair on number one, IDs in order of joining.

  3. Day 5

    Weight & quote

    Itemised quote against the day's silver rate. Quotes lock for 14 days. Numbering register set up.

  4. Day 10–14

    Bash sample

    For runs of 10+, a bash sample arrives at the company secretary's desk for sign-off before final production.

  5. Meeting day

    Hand delivery

    Hand-carried to the venue — Oberoi, Taj, ITC, or the registered office. Plain outer cartons, Nazarana boxes inside.

04 · Price bands

Three tiers. Each one fits a different meeting.

Pricing is weight-linked against the day's silver rate. Quotes lock for 14 days. GST extra.

Tier 01

Quarterly

₹12,000 – ₹30,000

50–100g 999 coins, walnut-sleeve boxes, single-line engraving. For quarterly takeaways and standing board-meeting gifts.

Minimum8 pieces
Tier 02

Anniversary

₹35,000 – ₹85,000

150–250g cast pieces — numbered desk-plaques, anniversary paperweights, exit-day runs. Roman-numeral numbering on the underside.

Minimum8 pieces
Tier 03

Retirement

₹65,000+

Single-piece sculpted commemoratives for chair or director retirements. 300g+ of 999, marble plinths, hand-engraved tenure dates.

Minimum1 piece
05 · Lead-time planner

Plan four weeks. Three at a push.

Numbered runs are made one piece at a time. The chair's piece always finishes last.

Week 1

Brief & numbering

Director list confirmed, chair's piece flagged, numbering register opened.

Week 2

Quote & bash sample

Itemised quote, bash sample to the company secretary's desk.

Week 3

Production

999 silver pulled, cast or hand-raised, hallmarked, numbered.

Week 4

Engrave & dispatch

Director-name engraving pass, hand-delivery to the meeting venue.

Editorial · ten numbered silver desk-plaques laid out on linen, roman numerals visible
10
Pieces · 22 days · Listed bank
06 · Case study · 2025

“The chair's piece weighed forty grams more. He noticed.”

A listed private bank in Mumbai briefed us in March 2025: ten pieces for the board, marking the bank's thirtieth year on the exchange. Cast silver desk-plaques, 220g of 999 silver each, numbered I/X through X/X on the underside.

The chair's piece — number one of ten, 260g, a single extra hand-engraved line from the founding chairman's 1995 speech — was hand-delivered at the off-site dinner. The company secretary forwarded us the chair's line back: “The chair's piece weighed forty grams more. He noticed.” That's the whole point of the numbering.

₹48,000
Per piece avg
22 days
Brief to delivery
260g
Chair's piece
07 · Frequently asked

The questions that come up before a board brief.

The company secretary or the chair's EA is welcome to call. We work to your numbering register.

Three recurring patterns. Quarterly board-meeting takeaways (8–14 pieces, considered tier — a paperweight, a coin, a desk-plaque to mark the date). Director retirements or rotations (1–3 pieces, marquee tier — a sculpted commemorative for the chair, a coin for the joining IDs). And exits or acquisitions, where the whole board gets a piece on the same day (8–12 numbered pieces in a single run).

Board commissions · by appointment

Twelve chairs, twelve pieces, one numbered run.

Numbered silver for boards across NCR and beyond. Chair's piece always number one. NDA on request.

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