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GREECE – ORDER OF THE SAVIOUR – SET OF GRAND OFFICER’S DECOR…
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GREECE – ORDER OF THE SAVIOUR – SET OF GRAND OFFICER’S DECOR…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
GREECE – ORDER OF THE SAVIOUR – SET OF GRAND OFFICER’S DECORATIONS (2nd TYPE), PRESUMED TO HAVE BELONGED TO DA’UD EFFENDI MOLKO, FIRST ‘DRAGOMAN’ TRANSLATOR OF THE IMPERIAL DIVAN, comprising:
- Commander’s Cross.
In gold and enamel (hair). Unmounted ribbon with fastenings.
74 x 51 mm. Gross weight: 20.30 g.
- Small silver plaque, diamond-cut, with the arms re-pierced. Gold centre depicting Christ Pantocrator (minimal wear). Reverse featuring two hooks with a swivel pin, marked by the maker Lemaitre in Paris.
73 mm. Gross weight: 45.95 g
In excellent condition.
Provenance: Da’ud Effendi Molko, then passed down through the family
Biography:
Da’ud Effendi Molko (sometimes also referred to as Mollo or Molho).
Chief translator at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Da’ud was born in Thessaloniki in 1845. Coming from a modest background, his family moved to Constantinople whilst he was still a child, and he attended primary school at the Camondo Institute. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the age of 18 and rose to the post of chief translator during the reign of Sultan Abd al-Aziz, retaining this position when Abd al-Hamid II ascended the throne.
Da’ud was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nishan-i-Osmaniye, the Nishan-i-Medjidiye and the Nishan-i-Imtiaz, as well as the Persian Order of the Sun and the Lion. He was also a Commander of the Legion of Honour, a recipient of the Order of the Prussian Crown, and a Grand Cross of the Polar Star.
Biography from ‘Univers israélite’, 15 January 1897.
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