Orders of St.George made by Dmitriy Osipov workshop /ДО/

Crosses with iconography of 1st type (1899-1908).

4th class in gold.

"Bulbous" /"Дутый"/ type.

Marked DO /ДО/ for Dmitri Osipov workshop.

St.Petersburg assay office gold hallmark "56AR /АР for Александр Романов/" from 1904-1908 time period.

Medallions.

 

4th class in gold from the collection of State Historical Museum.

Gold, enamel.
Size 44х41 mm.
Weight 11.21 g.

Saint Petersburg assay office hallmark for the 56th gold from 1899-1908 time period. Maker's mark unreadable.

Medallions comparison with previous cross.

 

This cross has amusing story of wrong museum attribution. For many years State Historical Museum attributed this cross to none other than General Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev /correctly attributed cross https://asiamedals.info/threads/4th...f-general-mikhail-dmitriyevich-skobelev.27252 ; see also https://asiamedals.info/threads/st-...-general-mikhail-dmitriyevich-skobelev.23498/ /.

For the first time this attribution appeared in the album "Relics of the History of the Russian State" published by museum in 1995.

Attribution.

"Badge of the Order of George IV class of General M.D.Skobelev.

Gold, enamel. 1877.

M. D. Skobelev wore this cross during the Russian-Turkish war.
On February 19, 1878, he presented this cross near Constantinople to Colonel L. N. Skobelev".

Amazingly precise attribution, isn't it?
But the cross marked with assay mark that will be introduced only in 1899.
So this whole attribution is nothing but a fantasy.

Two years later cross reappeared (with the same attribution) on a postcard issued by the museum.

After that for more than two decades this cross was referred to as "Scobelev cross".
Only recently museum collections staff pay attention to the assay mark and re-attributed cross to 1905-1906.

In fact (before "Scobelev" attribution incident) cross was attributed to the Russo-Japanese war.

On display in 1988.

With the following attribution.

"On the left - a badge of the Order of St. George, IV class for participation in the battle of the cruiser "Varyag" and the gunboat "Koreets" with the Japanese squadron on January 27, 1904 in the Korean port of Chemulpo. On the right is the sailors' medal for this battle".

Two years later in Durov`s "Russian and Soviet Combat Awards" (published in 1990)

on page 50

this cross was correctly attributed to Lieutenant Pavel Stepanov (awarded with 4th class St.George on April 16, 1904 for the battle of Chemulpo Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chemulpo_Bay). About him https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Степанов,_Павел_Гаврилович. Cross was donated to the museum by E.P. Stepanova-Kravets.

Book description.

1. Badge of the Order of George of the fourth class of Lieutenant P.G. Stepanov, a participant of the battle of "Varyag" and "Koreyets" with the Japanese squadron at Chemulpo in January 1904.

1. Знак ордена Георгия четвертой степени лейтенанта П.Г. Степанова, участника боя «Варяга» и «Корейца» с японской эскадрой при Чемульпо в январе 1904 года.

In our days.

 

Gold, enamel.
Size 40 mm.
Weight 11.26 g.

Marked with St.Petersburg assay office mark for gold '56AR /АР for Александр Романов/" from 1904-1908 time period. Maker's mark practically unreadable. Could be a part of "А.Б" mark of Alexander Brylov workshop /Александр Брылов/ https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...v-workshop-aleksandr-brylov-marked-a-b.26589/​

Medallions comparison with the cross marked with DO /ДО/ mark.

Comparison with the cross marked with A.B /А.Б/ mark.

Another comparison with "А.Б"-marked cross.

Obviously these medallions were painted by the same master. Most likely Alexander Brylov was an independent contractor for the Osipov workshop.
See also crosses made by "EEA" workshop with same iconography https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-st-george-made-by-eaa-workshop.25662/

 

Looks like one of two 4th class St.George orders that belong to Franz Joseph I of Austria was made by the Osipov workshop https://asiamedals.info/threads/4th...-franz-joseph-i-of-austria.23525/#post-348406

 

4th class "bulbous" cross of Saint George order with interesting subvariation of 1st type iconography.

Gold, enamel.

Marked with partly readable St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark "56, kokoshnik facing left, AR /AР/ for the Alexander Romanov /Александр Васильевич Романов/ assay district manager" from 1904-1908 time period, round mark "56AR" and maker's mark "D•О"/"Д•О" for Dmitry Osipov.

Marks.

 

Crosses with iconography of 2nd type (1882-1899).

Rare privately commissioned "prinzen" size cross with pink medallion (see https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...-from-last-quarter-of-the-19th-century.25642/)
Provenance https://asiamedals.info/threads/4th...m-dubasov-timachov-sheremetev-families.23645/

Gold, enamel.
Size 33,5×29,7 mm.
Weight 8.72 g.

Engraved on the rim "1896".

Marked DO /ДО/ for Dmitri Osipov workshop and St.Peterburg assay office mark for gold "56 + St. Peterburg coat of arms" from 1882-1899 time period.

Medallions.

 

Another example of 4th class cross with 2nd type iconography that was privately commissioned by Admiral Fedor Vasilievich Dubasov.

Gold, enamel.
Size 43 x 38.4 mm.
Weight 21.69 g.

Marked with DO /ДО/ for Dmitri Osipov workshop and St.Petersburg assay office mark for 56th gold "56+anchors" from pre-1898 time period.

Medallions.

The cross of the order was made as a locker. Inside, in the central medallions, there are photographs: on the left - the wife of the Dubasov with their youngest child, on the right - their two older children. On the left ends of the cross are engraved the dates of birth of his wife and children: at the top - “September 10 / 1855”, on the left - “March 19 / 1886”, on the right - “May 30 / 1887”, below - “March 22 / 1889."
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Fyodor Vasilyevich Dubasov (Фёдор Васильевич Дубасов; June 21 [July 3] 1845 - June 19 [July 2] 1912; St. Petersburg ) was a Russian naval and statesman, adjutant general and admiral from the nobility Dubasov family. He was awarded with 4th class order of St. George on May 16, 1877. On May 9, 1877, after the outbreak of war with Turkey, he was entrusted with command of the steam mine boat “Tsesarevich”. On the night of May 13-14, 1877, Lieutenant-Commander Dubasov and Lieutenant A.P. Shestakov with several midshipmen and sailors on two mine boats attacked Turkish battleships, blew up with two pole mines and sank the Turkish single-turret armored monitor "Seifi". Dubasov, midshipmen Persin and Bal sailed on three boats to the sunken battleship and removed the flag from it. Dubasov and Shestakov were the first to be awarded the Order of St. George, 4th class in that campaign.

 

Crosses with iconography of 3rd type (1904-1908).

Gold, enamel.
Size 41.1 x 35.4 mm.

White enamel was partly unprofessionally restored.

Marked with DO /ДО/ for Dmitri Osipov workshop and St.Petersburg assay office mark for 56th gold from 1904-1908 time period (AR /AР/ for the Alexander Romanov /Александр Васильевич Романов/ assay district manager).

Medallions.