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A Sash Badge of the Order of St. Anne, Civil Division, First Class, attributed to Karl Hahn, St. Petersburg, circa 1910
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description
- 76.5mm (including riband carrier) by 49.5mm
non-Christian type probably converted by replacement of the centre, in gold, silver, paste and enamels, the maker's mark on suspension loop indistinct but clearly cb on the riband carrier for the Hahn workmaster Carl Blanc, four pastes missing (two from badge and two from riband carrier) and the non-Christian centre apparently fitted at a later date, extremely fine condition
Catalogue Note
The Order of St. Anne was originally founded in 1735 by Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp in memory of his wife Anna Petrovna, the daughter of Peter the Great. After their son, the future Peter III, was named by Elizabeth as her heir to the Russian throne in the autumn of 1742, the Order began to be conferred upon Russians. In 1797 Peter's son Paul I re-established it as a purely Russian award, carrying the right to hereditary nobility in all its classes until 1845. The structure of the Order was reformed on several occasions and badges featuring the Imperial Eagle, rather than a portrait of the Saint, were presented to non-Christian recipients.