Order of Saint Valdimir.
Cross 4th class. Civilian Division. Gold and enamel. Late 19th – early 20th-century manufacture. 34 mm. 6.4 gr. Some minor damage to the enamel of the reverse medallion, otherwise XF. Barac 711; Werlich 16.
The loop is marked with the combined city and standard mark; 56 (14K – 583 gold) and the 1741-1908 symbol for St. Petersburg; the crossed anchor, grapnel, and scepter. 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, 31-32, 47-48; Werlich, 13-15.