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OTTOMAN EMPIRE – ORDER OF OSMANIA – IMPORTANT AND LUXURIOUS …
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OTTOMAN EMPIRE – ORDER OF OSMANIA – IMPORTANT AND LUXURIOUS …
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
OTTOMAN EMPIRE – ORDER OF OSMANIA – IMPORTANT AND LUXURIOUS ‘DIAMOND’ PLAQUE OF THE GRAND CROSS BELONGING TO DA’UD EFFENDI MOLKO, CHIEF TRANSLATOR (‘DRAGOMAN’) OF THE IMPERIAL DIVAN.
In silver, radiating, with eight main arms, entirely set with approximately 460 diamonds, the largest of which are brilliant-cut.
The centre consists of several sections, in enamelled vermeil (significant loss of enamel on the green band).
Vermeil reverse with a swivel pin and two hooks.
111 x 107 mm. Gross weight: 119 g.
Very Good to Very Good-Plus.
Provenance: Da’ud Effendi Molko, then by descent
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.
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
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