Order of Lion and Sun (and other awards) of General Director of the Anatolian Railway Company Franz Johannes Günther

Franz Johannes Günther was born in 1861, and served as General Director of the Anatolian Railway Company, the company funded by Deutsche bank and tasked with the construction of the Berlin to Baghdad Railway which, when ultimately linked to the port of Basra, would have enabled Germany to transport goods and oil across land from the Indian Ocean, thus bypassing the Anglo-French controlled Suez Canal. He died in 1937.​

2nd/3rd class Lion and Sun order.
Silver, gilt, strass stones, enamel.
Size 78 x 76 mm.

Unmarked. Judging by the construction and badge iconography it was made by/for Nichols&Plinke https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...by-russian-workshop-nichols-plinke-n-p.27278/

 

Damaged 3rd class order of St. Stanislaus made by Albert Keibel.
Gold, enamel.
Size 41 mm.

Eagles.

 

Order of the Noble Bukhara, Gold Stas of 3rd Grade made by Osipov workshop https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-the-noble-bukhara-made-by-russian-workshop-of-dmitriy-osipov-do.27290/

Gold, enamel.
Size 73 mm.
Marked with maker's mark DO /ДО/ for Dmitri Osipov workshop and St. Petersburg assay office mark for 56th gold "St. Petersburg coat of arms + 56".

Marks.