Order of Saint Vladimir
Cross 3rd class. Civilian Division. Gold and enamel. Manufacture 1898-1903. 45 mm. 13.1 gr. XF. Barac 707; Werlich 16.

The loop is marked with the Kokoshnik mark 56 (14K – 583 gold), an intaglio engraved left facing woman’s head, and the initials Я. Л., signifying the work of Yakov Nikolayevich Lyapunov who worked in St. Petersburg from 1899 to 1903. On the top arm of the cross a Russian Imperial double-headed eagle, the mark of the official supplier to the Imperial court. On the bottom arm of the cross is the makers stamp A. K. of the St Petersburg-born German jeweler, gold- and silversmith Albert Konstantin Keibel. Between 1882 and 1910 he was the official manufacturer of all Russian orders. Albert Keibel died in 1910 and is considered one of the most important Russian jewelers.

Lit: Barac4, 1504; Tammann, 15, 31-32, 47-48; Werlich, 13-15.