Orders of St. Alexander Nevsky made by Johann Wilhelm Keibel /WK/

Rare privately commissioned diamond cut badge (for a diamond-cut cross made by IK see https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...y-made-by-julius-keibel-ik.25741/#post-358050).

Gold, silver, enamel.
Size 54 × 83 mm.
Weight 47.20 g.
Marked 56, WK, coat of arms of St. Petersburg and 1862 year mark.

Collection of State Historical Museum, Moscow.

Painting of medallions.

 

Under different light.

 

Сross from 1858.
Gold, enamel.
Marked on reverse under the enamel with "double-headed eagle" and "WK", loop marked with hallmark "56" and St. Petersburg assay office year mark "1858".

Marks.

 

Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky of Otto von Bismarck

Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg was awarded with Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky on March 13, 1862. Interesting iconography of WK /Johann Wilhelm Keibel/ made cross.

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Сross that was issued to Bismarck in 1862.

Variation of iconography.

 

Gold, enamel.
Cross width 54 mm.
Weight 30 g.
Marked "56", "WK" for Wilhelm Keibel and St. Petersburg assay office year mark "1860".

Cross was awarded in 1861 to General Hector de Gerbaix de Sonnaz.

 

Gold, enamel.
Size 59.4 x 53.8 mm.
Weight 40.2 g
Marked "WK", gold hallmark "56" of St. Petersburg assay office.

Sash.

Breast star.
Silver, gilding, enamel.
Size 87 mm.
Marked "84", "Keibel", "Imperial Eagle" and round "St.Petersburg coats of arms".

 

Gold, enamel.
Size 60 x 54 mm.
Weight 40.2 g
Marked on reverse under the enamel with "double-headed eagle" and "WK", loop marked with hallmark "72" and St. Petersburg assay office year mark "1856".

Very close by iconography to the previous cross.

 

Gold, enamel.
Size 60 x 54 mm.
Weight 40.2 g
Marked on reverse under the enamel with "double-headed eagle" and "WK", loop marked with hallmark "56" and St. Petersburg assay office year mark "1863".

 

Gold, enamel.
Size 60 x 54 mm.
Weight 40.2 g
Marked on reverse under the enamel with "double-headed eagle" and "WK", loop marked with hallmark "56" and St. Petersburg assay office year mark "1860".

Collection of National Museum of Finland.

Central medallions.

Marks.