Catalog - SINCONA Auction 67

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Order of Homayoun [Nishan-i-Homayoun]. Bronze Medal of the order, bronze, with breast ribbon. BWK3 114; YOU page 199 ff.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 10/USD 10)

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Order of Haft Peykar or of the Pleiades [Nishân-i-Haftpaykar - Order of the Seven Celestial Bodies]. Fist class set of insigna, manufacturing of Arthus Bertrand in Paris, consisting of: badge of the order, 900/000 silver gilt and enamels, ribbon ring with silver and manufacturer’s mark, without sash ribbon, and breast star, 900/000 silver gilt and enamels, with pin, this with silver and manufacturer’s mark of Arthus Bertrand, without sash ribbon.
Fast vorzüglich / About extremely fine. (2)
(~€ 1’400/USD 1’650)
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).

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Medal for Bravery [Nishan-i-Jaladat]. Issue with the year AH 1263 [AD 1846/1847], Large Gold Medal of 10 Toman (!), wearable issue, diam. 42.8 mm, gold, slightly waved, with surmounting, attached to an old ribbon, total weight (including ribbon) 34.1 g. BWK3 -.
Sehr selten / Very rare. Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 23’365/USD 27’475)
The inscription on the obverse means „shahanshah-e anbiya muhammad“ means [„king of the kings of the prophets, Muhammad“] and on the reverse „nishan-e jaladat / har shir-del keh doshman-e shah ra ‘’inangereft / az aftab-e hemmat-e ma in nesahn gereft / fi sana 1263“ [„medal of bravery / any lion-hearted one who caught the rein of Shah’s foe / receives this medal from our luminous magnimity / Year AH 1263 / AD 1846/1847“].
There is no evidence of when the Medal for Bravery was established, but the oldest known pieces show the year AH 1253 [AD 1837/1838]. So it may have been instituted during the reign of Mohammad Shah Qajar (1808-1848, reigned since 1834). There are numerous editions with various years from AH 1253 [AD 1837/1838] until AH 1334 [AD 1915/1916]. The medal was awarded as a Large Gold Medal of 10 Toman, which is highly rare to find, a Small Gold Medal of 5 Toman and a Silver Medal. We do not know if all three classes exist in all known years. It seems that after the First World War the medal came into disuse.

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Medal for Bravery [Nishan-i-Jaladat]. Issue with the year AH 1300 [AD 1882/1883], probable replacement piece for the Small Gold Medal, wearable issue, diam. 35.1 mm, silver gilt, with traces of wear, with ribbon. BWK3 9 var.
Sehr schön / Very fine.
(~€ 70/USD 80)

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Medal for Bravery [Nishan-i-Jaladat]. Issue with the year AH 1300 [AD 1882/1883], probable replacement piece for the Small Gold Medal, wearable issue, diam. 35.1 mm, silver cast (!) gilt, with ribbon. BWK3 9 var.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 70/USD 80)

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Medal for Bravery [Nishan-i-Jaladat]. Issue with the year AH 1317 [AD 1899/1900], probable replacement piece for the Small Gold Medal, wearable issue, diam. 36.8 mm, silver cast gilt, with light green ribbon. BWK3 17 var.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 70/USD 80)

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Medal for Bravery [Nishan-i-Jaladat]. Issue with the year AH 1317 [AD 1899/1900], Silver Medal, wearable issue, diam. 36.8 mm, silver, with green ribbon. BWK3 18.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 95/USD 110)

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Medal for Bravery [Nishan-i-Jaladat]. Issue with the year AH 1318 [AD 1900/1901], probable replacement piece for the Small Gold Medal, wearable issue, diam. 37.0 mm, silver gilt, with uncorrect new red triangular ribbon. BWK3 19 var.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 70/USD 80)

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Medal for Bravery [Nishan-i-Jaladat]. Issue with the year AH 1318 [AD 1900/1901], Silver Medal, wearable issue, diam. 37.0 mm, silver, with light green ribbon. BWK3 20.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 95/USD 110)

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Order of Glory [Nishan-i-Iftikhar]. Silver star, silver, partly gilt, and enamels, with two superficial chips in the light blue enamels, with original ribbon with pin. BWK3 122; YOU p. 240 ff.
Selten / Rare. Sehr schön / Very fine.
(~€ 45/USD 55)
Established 1937 during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944, reigned from 1925 until 1941) in three classes (1st to 3rd class) and annexed three-class (1st to 3rd class) medal for military achievement.

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Reza Shah Coronation Medal [Midal-i-Taj-Gudhari]. Bronze Medal, Bronze, with ribbon and pin, in its original case. BWK3 48; YOU p. 282.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 45/USD 55)
Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944, reigned from 1925 until 1941) was born on March 15, 1878, in Alasht in the Savadkuh county in the province of Mazandaran as son of Mazandarani [Major] Abbas-Ali Khan (died 1878) and his second wife Abbas-Ali Khan. In 1891, at the age of 14, he joined the Persian Cossack Brigade, of which he later received a commission as a Brigadier General. After a coup d’état in 1921 he became commander of the Iranian army and Minister of War. On October 28, 1923, he was appointed Hazrat-i-Ashraf [Prime Minister] of Iran with dictatorical powers, with the style of Janab-i-Ashraf [His Serene Highness]. By October 1925, he succeeded in pressuring the Majlis to depose and formally exile Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930, reigned from 1909 until 1925), and instate himself as the next Shah of Iran. Initially, he had planned to declare the country a republic, as his contemporary Atatürk had done in Turkey, but abandoned the idea in the face of clerical opposition. The Majlis, convening as a constituent assembly, declared him the Shahanshah of Iran on December 12, 1925, pursuant to the Persian Constitution of 1906. Three days later, on December 15, he took his imperial oath, and thus became the first Shahanshah of the Pahlavi dynasty. Reza Shah’s coronation took place much later, on 25 April 1926. The medal was instituted on that occasion.

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The Police Gratitude Decoration [Nishan-i-Paas]. 1st-class decoration, silver gilt and enamels, with ribbon without laurel leaf. YOU page 332.
Selten / Rare. Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 45/USD 55)
Established AJ 1325 [AD 1946] during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980, reigned from 1841 until 1979) in three classes (1st to 3rd class) and annexed three-class (1st to 3rd class) medal for achievement in the police.

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Decoration for Gratitude in Sporting Achievements [Nishan-i-Sepas-Varzeshi]. 3rd-class decoration, bronze and enamels, with its original breast ribbon with pin. YOU page 397 ff.
Selten / Rare. Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 25/USD 25)
It is not known when the three-class decoration has been established.

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Post, Telegraph and Telephone Ministry Decoration. 2nd-class decoration, Silver partly gilt, and enamels, with breast ribbon. YOU page 236 f.
Sehr selten / Very rare. Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 25/USD 25)
This ministerial decoration, consisting of Supreme grade 1st and 2nd class, 1st to 3rd class and two-class (Gold and Silver) Medal, has been established in AJ 1334 [AD 1955].

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Miniatures of four different awards: 1) Silver medal of the Order of Homayoun, silver; 2) Decoration for Military Merit [Nishan-i-Liyaghat], 3rd class, bronze and enamels; 3) Order of Glory [Nishan-i-Iftikhar], 2nd class, silver and enamels; 4) Decoration for Police Effort [Nishan-i-Koushsh], 3rd class, bronze and enamels. All four with the correct ribbons.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine. (4)
(~€ 70/USD 80)

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Commemorative medal with a youth portrait of Ahmad Shah Qajar, dated „1347“. Diam. 22.7 mm, bronze, without ribbon ring and ribbon.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 10/USD 10)
Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930, reigned from 1909 until 1925), 3rd son of his predecessor Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (1872-1925, reigned from 1907 until 1909) came to the throne aged only eleven, after his father had been deposed on July 16, 1909, by rebels seeking to restore the the empire’s 1906 constitution. The Grand Majles of 500 delegates placed him on the throne. Due to his young age, his uncle, Ali Reza Khan Azod al-Molk (1847-1910), governed as regent. Ahmad Shah was formally crowned on 21 July 1914, upon reaching his majority. On 21 February 1921, Ahmad Shah was pushed aside in a military coup by Colonel Reza Khan (1878-1944, reigned as Shahanshah from 1925 until 1941), Minister of War and commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade, who subsequently seized the post of Prime Minister. Ahmad Shah was formally deposed on 31 October 1925, when Reza Khan was proclaimed Shah by the Majlis, as Reza Shah Pahlavi. This terminated the Qajar Dynasty.

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The Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant. 2nd model (1873-1941), Knight Commander or 2nd-class set of insignia, 2nd edition (since 1889), probably Thai hollow manufacturing, consisting of: neck decoration, silver gilt and enamels, with enamel repairs, with old conditioned neck ribbon, and breast star, silver partly brillanté, partly gilt, and enamels, with slight enamel repairs, with pin, in its original, slightly damaged red case with golden imprinted royal cipher. BWK4 127, 128.
Selten / Rare. Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine. (2)
(~€ 1’400/USD 1’650)
The originally four-class (1st to 4th class) order for civil and military merit was instituted by King Mongkut (Rama IV - 1804-1863, reigned since 1851) in 1869 (1st model), basing on the 1861 office insignia [„Dhara Airapot“ resp. „Dhara Chang Pheuak“] which only can be considered as precursors of the order. In 1873, by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V „The Great“ - 1853-1910, reigned since 1868), the insignia of the order received a more modern design, and a 5th class was added. In 1889, the badge of the 2nd class was changed from an 4th-class (Officer’s) decoration two a 3rd-class (Commander’s) decoration.

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The Royal Order of King Tupou I [Ko e Fakalangilangi ‘o Kingi Sia’osi Topou I]. Knight Grand Commander or Knight Grand Cross breast star (with four crowns), diam. 93.2 x 92.9 mm, European manufacturing, silver partly gilt, brillanté and repercé, and enamels, with pin.
Äusserst selten / Extremely rare. Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 6’540/USD 7’690)
The three-class (Knight Grand Commander or Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander and Companion) order for general merit was instituted by King George Tupou I [Siaosi Tâufa’âhau I] of Tonga (1797-1893, reigned since 1845, crowned 1875) between 1876 and 1882. From an unknown date the order by some authors is said to be dormant, but the insignia are still worn by some reigning sovereins. In 2008, King George Tupou V [Siaosi Tâufa’âhau Manumataongo Tu-ku’aho Tupou V] of Tonga (1948-2012, reigned since 2006) abolished the two lower classes of the order.