SINCONA Auction 83

Description

Order of Haft Peykar or of the Pleiades [Nishân-i-Haftpaykar] - Order of the Sev 1st class set of insigna, manufacturing of Arthus Bertrand in Paris, consisting of: badge of the order, 54.6 mm, 35.6 g, 900/000 silver gilt and enamels, ribbon ring with combined silver and manufacturer's mark, without sash ribbon, and breast star, 68.2 mm, 61.36 g, 900/000 silver gilt and enamels, with pin, this with combined silver and manufacturer's mark. YOU page 1663 ff. Fast vorzüglich / About extremely fine.

The originally two-class (1st and 2nd class) order for female merit, with annexed three-class (1st, 2nd and 3rd class) medal, was established between 1951 and 1955, by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980, reigned from 1941 until 1979), probably in connection with his 2nd marriage with Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932-2001). In 1967, a 3rd class was added. With the abdication of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979, the order ceeded to exist as a state order. But it is still conferred as a dynastical order by Shabanu Farah Diba, Dowager Empress (born 1938). Referenzwerke: BWK3 Barac, Borna: Reference Catalogue - Orders, Medals and Decorations of the World Instituted until 1945 - Part III - Silver Book - G-P. Zagreb 2013. YOU Younessi, Dr. O. James: Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Empire of Iran - The Pahlavi Era. College Station 2016.