AUSTRIA - ORDER OF FRANZ JOSEPH - COMMANDER'S SET WITH...
AUSTRIA - ORDER OF FRANZ JOSEPH - COMMANDER'S SET WITH STAR, PRESUMED TO BELONG TO DA'UD EFFENDI MOLKO, FIRST "DRAGOMAN" TRANSLATOR OF THE IMPERIAL DIVAN. Includes:
- Commander's Cross.
In gold and enamel. Austrian 750 hallmark and Vienna hallmark. Reverse with hinged center.
70 x 39 mm - Gross weight: 26 g
Original open tie clip. Tie in poor condition.
- Commander’s plaque.
Made of silver with diamond-point engraving. The center is of enameled gold. Reverse hallmarked “C,” with a hinged clasp and the manufacturer’s mark “VINC MAYER’S SOHNE”
70 mm - Gross weight: 55 g.
Very good condition. Late 19th century, early 20th century.
Provenance: Da’ud Effendi Molko, then by descent
Biography:
Daoud 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 while he was still a child, and he attended elementary school at the Camondo Institute. He entered the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the age of 18, rose to the position of chief translator during the reign of Sultan Abd al-Aziz, and retained that 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 is also a Commander of the Legion of Honor, a recipient of the Order of the Prussian Crown, and a Grand Cross of the Polar Star.
Biography from “Univers israélite,” January 15, 1897.
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
AUSTRIA - ORDER OF FRANZ JOSEPH - COMMANDER'S SET WITH STAR, PRESUMED TO BELONG TO DA'UD EFFENDI MOLKO, FIRST "DRAGOMAN" TRANSLATOR OF THE IMPERIAL DIVAN. Includes:
- Commander's Cross.
In gold and enamel. Austrian 750 hallmark and Vienna hallmark. Reverse with hinged center.
70 x 39 mm - Gross weight: 26 g
Original open tie clip. Tie in poor condition.
- Commander’s plaque.
Made of silver with diamond-point engraving. The center is of enameled gold. Reverse hallmarked “C,” with a hinged clasp and the manufacturer’s mark “VINC MAYER’S SOHNE”
70 mm - Gross weight: 55 g.
Very good condition. Late 19th century, early 20th century.
Provenance: Da’ud Effendi Molko, then by descent
Biography:
Daoud 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 while he was still a child, and he attended elementary school at the Camondo Institute. He entered the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the age of 18, rose to the position of chief translator during the reign of Sultan Abd al-Aziz, and retained that 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 is also a Commander of the Legion of Honor, a recipient of the Order of the Prussian Crown, and a Grand Cross of the Polar Star.
Biography from “Univers israélite,” January 15, 1897.
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
