OTTOMAN EMPIRE - SILVER-CLASS "IMTIYAZ" MEDAL PRESUMED TO BELONG TO...
OTTOMAN EMPIRE - SILVER-CLASS "IMTIYAZ" MEDAL PRESUMED TO BELONG TO DA'UD EFFENDI MOLKO, FIRST "DRAGOMAN" TRANSLATOR OF THE IMPERIAL DIVAN
Made of silver, mounted on a handcrafted silver plated loop decorated with foliage motifs. Reverse side bears no name. Ribbon without clasp.
Gross weight: 25.2 g. 36 mm
Included is a white-metal medal for support of Ottoman military installations (28 mm)
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 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
OTTOMAN EMPIRE - SILVER-CLASS "IMTIYAZ" MEDAL PRESUMED TO BELONG TO DA'UD EFFENDI MOLKO, FIRST "DRAGOMAN" TRANSLATOR OF THE IMPERIAL DIVAN
Made of silver, mounted on a handcrafted silver plated loop decorated with foliage motifs. Reverse side bears no name. Ribbon without clasp.
Gross weight: 25.2 g. 36 mm
Included is a white-metal medal for support of Ottoman military installations (28 mm)
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 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
