imperial china awards and decorations

Silver, gilt, enamel. Size 54 mm.

Silver, gilt, enamel, coral. Size 90 mm.

Exemplary set awarded in December 1906 to 3rd class medical officer /rank equivalent to a Major/ Tōichirō Suganuma. Sash badge.

Silver, gilt, enamel. Size 89 mm. Awarded to Russian Maritime Customs Deputy Commisioner P. B. von Rautenfeld, based in Swatow (Province of Kwang-tung, China) /大俄國人前潮海關副稅務司勞騰飛經護理兩廣總督胡/ on November 22, 1907 /賞給三等第三寶星光緒三十三年九月初十日奉/. [Double Dragon Precious] Star No. 3571 /星字三千五百七十一號/.

Gold. Size 56 x 40 mm. Weigh 54.29 g. Obverse 大清帝國 - Great Qing Empire 北洋海軍 - Beiyang ["Northern Ocean"] Navy The creation of the Beiyang Fleet dated back to 1871, when four ships from the southern provinces were shifted north to patrol the northern waters. The Beiyang fleet was initially...

2nd Class 2nd Grade badge. Gilded silver, enamel. Size 67 x 81 mm. Marked "FR" for Rothe and Austrian silver hallmark ("3" Dog's Head "A") for 800th silver. Details. Marks.

Second Class First Grade breast star. Gilded silver, enamel (incorrect central sapphire and upper stone and an orange-red coral). Size 78 mm.

Reverse engraved 光緒二十七年 = 27th year of Guangxu Era =1901 功牌 - Merit Medal

Breast star of 2nd Class, 3rd Grade. Silver, gilt, enamel. Size 89.2 mm. Weight 110 g. About the cavalier https://asiamedals.info/threads/order-of-double-dragon-and-other-awards-of-krupp-works-director-carl-menshausen.23599/ Medallion.

On 12 June 1900 the German Plenipotentiary to China, Baron Clemens von Ketteler, was murdered in the streets of Peking by members of the Imperial Guards Brigade. The Kaiser demanded that that the Emperor should erect a monument in Ketteler’s memory and that he should come to Berlin personally to...

This workshop used a very specific form for its breast stars. All known breast stars have St. Petersburg silver assay marks from pre-1899 time period. Breast stars usually bear workshop mark МБ /MB/ supposedly мастерская М.И.Богданова/M.I. Bogdanov workshop. Breast star without МБ /MB/ mark...

Fedor (Friedrich) Andreevich Ruch/Федор (Фридрих) Андреевич Руч/Федор (Фридрих) Андреевич Ручъ. The owner of a workshop of gold and silver products in Saint Petersburg. Between 1900 and 1910 his workshop was located at Nevsky prospect, 44 /Невский проспект, 44/, After 1910 at Sadovaya street, 22...

First type, 2nd Class, 3rd Grade neck badge. Silver, gilt, enamel, coral. Size 118.5 x 92mm.

Awarded to general Anicet-Edmond-Justin Bichot (1835–1908) https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicet_Bichot

The statutes of the Order of of the Double Dragon, including full-size illustrations, were printed in Chinese and also in French by Th. Dupuy in Paris in form of a proposal of the Tsongli-Yamen (Premier's office) to the Empress Regent on February 7, 1882; they were imperially approved on the...

2nd Class 1st Grade breast star. Silver, gilt, enamel, coral. Size 89.51 mm. What workshop hides behind GD /ГД/ mark? The base of this breast star is very close (if not identical) to the base of breast stars made by Feodor Rückert /ФР/ workshop...