Orders of St. Alexander Nevsky made by Eduard /ИЛ or ВД/

Iconography of 1st type "early painted medallions".

Gold, enamel.
Size 60.5 × 55 mm.
Height (including suspension loop) 75 mm.
Weight 32.15 g.

Marked IL /ИЛ/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1899-1904 time period "56, kokoshnik to the left, initials of the assay inspector of the St. Petersburg assay office "ЯЛ/YL" (Яков Ляпунов/Yakov Lyapunov)".

Medallions.

Marks.

 

Another cross with a hand-painted medallions.

Gold, enamel.
Size 58.8 × 53.6 mm.
Weight 33.35 g.

Marked IL /ИЛ/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1899-1904 time period.

 

Gold, enamel.
Cross size 53 mm.
Breast star 88 mm.

Marked IL /ИЛ/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1904-1908 time period.

Ex Richard Magor collection.

 

Iconography of 2nd type "late decal medallions".

Gold, enamel.
Size 55 × 60.5 mm.

Marked VD /ВД/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1908+ time period.

 

Gold, enamel.
Marked VD /ВД/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1908+ time period.

See https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...-roman-petrovich-of-russia.23730/#post-349238

 

Rare full set with swords from 1908+ time period.

Currently in the collection of the Musée de la Légion d'honneur, Paris.

Breast star.

 

Reverse of the badge with swords that was awarded to the field marshal William Robertson in 1915 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Robertson,_1st_Baronet

Source.

 

Set from 1910-1917 time period.

Gold, enamel.
Marked VD /ВД/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark [alpha, kokoshnik to the right, 56] from 1908+ time period.

Marks.

Breast star with rounded rays (1910+).

Marks.

Same set under different light https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...ky-made-by-eduard-il-or-vd.23597/#post-358105

 

Breast star with rounded rays (1910-1917 time period) from the collection of State Historical Museum in Moscow.

Silver, enamel.
Size 55 × 59.5 mm.
Weight 31.42 g.

Marked VD /ВД/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office silver hallmark from 1908+ time period.

Marks.

 

Breast star from the 1910+ time period.

Silver, enamel.
Size 92×92 mm.
Weight 80.6 g.

Marked VD /ВД/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office silver hallmark from 1908+ time period.

Marks.

 

Another VD-marked breast star from 1910+ time period.

 

Early breast stars from 1906-1910 time period (a.k.a. "tented"/"шатровые" or "sharp"/"острые") marked IL /ИЛ/.

On January 31, 1906, Russian Imperial Kapitul signed first contract with the Eduard workshop for the manufacturing of Russian Imperial orders. Officially approved form for the breast stars had tented (шатровая) shape with sharp ends of rays (this form was new and slightly different from usual breast star that were manufactured by the previous Kapitul supplier - Keibel workshop). The tented form of the order stars lasted only for four years until February 4, 1910 when Kapitul sent a letter No. 142 to the Eduard workshop. The reason for the letter was the numerous complaints of the cavaliers about the need to change the shape of the rays of the order breast stars, which with their pointed ends spoiled clothes and sometimes even scratched their hands. Therefore Kapitul proposed to change the shape of the breast stars and make them with rounded rays. Firm "Eduard" agreed with the suggestion of Kapitul and subsequently began to produce breast stars from thicker silver plates (which increased the weight of the stars) and with rounded rays.​

Breast star from 1908-1910 time period.
Size 90×90 mm.

Central medallion.

Marks.

Another example of such breast star.

Silver, enamel, gilding.
Size 87.5 mm.
Weight 57.2 g.

Marked IL/ИЛ/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office silver hallmark from 1904-1908 time period [84, kokoshnik facing left, AR /AР/ for the Alexander Romanov /Александр Васильевич Романов/ assay district manager].

 

Another breast star from the same time period.

Silver, enamel, gilding.
Size 87x87 mm.
Weight 59.47 g.

Marked IL/ИЛ/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office silver hallmark from 1904-1908 time period [84, kokoshnik facing left, AR /AР/ for the Alexander Romanov /Александр Васильевич Романов/ assay district manager].

Marks.

 

"Tented" breast star from 1908-1910.

Silver, enamel, gilding.
Size 90x90 mm.

Marked IL /ИЛ/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office silver hallmark from 1908+ time period.

 

Set of St. Alexander Nevsky for Non-Christians that was awarded to Marquess Okuma Shigenobu in 1916 https://asiamedals.info/threads/russian-orders-for-non-christians-of-marquess-okuma-shigenobu.11797/

 

Specimen from the collection of Moscow Kremlin Museums.

Gold, enamel.
Size 53 mm.

Marked VD /ВД/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1908+ time period.

 

Orders of St. Alexander Nevsky in Eduard catalogue published in 1908-1917.

Client could ordered breast stars and badges in two sizes and in two metals (silver and silver with gold parts).

 

Cross from the collection of State Historical Museum, Moscow.

Gold, enamel.
Size 55 × 59.5 mm.
Weight 31.42 g.

Marked VD /ВД/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1908+ time period.

Medallions.

Same cross under different light.

 

Gold, silver, enamel.

Marked IL /ИЛ/, Eduard /Эдуардъ/ and St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from 1904-1908 time period.

Marks "ИЛ" and "Эдуардъ".

Breast star with sharp rays (before 1910).

 

Full set from 1910-1916 time period.
Fragment of the sash length 340 mm, width 100 mm.

Gold, enamel.
Size 53 mm.
Weight 34.30 g.

Marked under the enamel "Eduard/Эдуардъ" and "VD/ВД"; on the ring marked with St. Petersburg district assay office gold hallmark after 1908.

Slight restoration of chipped reverse medallion decal (left side of the ribbon and crown).

Silver, gilding, enamel.
Size 90×89.7 mm.
Weight 76.86 g.

Marked "Eduard/Эдуардъ", "VD/ВД" and St. Petersburg district assay office silver hallmarks after 1908.