A post-Revolution Ottoman Order of Hanedani Ali Osman Collar Badge, privately manufactured a...

A post-Revolution Ottoman Order of Hanedani Ali Osman Collar Badge, privately manufactured and presented by H.M. King Farouk of Egypt to the exiled Ottoman Prince Ömer Faruk as a token of Friendship and Esteem Ottoman Empire, a post-Revolution Order of Hanedani Ali Osman (Order of the Illustrious Ottoman Dynasty) Collar Badge, 87mm including Star and crescent suspension x 55mm, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, the gold centre with the toughra of Abdul Hamid II, the border around bearing the dates AH 699 (1299 AD, the date of the founding of the Ottoman Empire) and AH 1311 (1895 AD, the date of the foundation of the Order), the reverse bearing the Ottoman imperial arms, a crowned cypher of H.H. Prince Ömer Faruk, and maker’s name Naguib Bey, Cairo, about extremely fine, rare £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Presented by King Farouk of Egypt to Prince Ömer Faruk, and thence by descent. The Order of Hanedani Ali Osman was instituted by Abdul Hamid II in 1895 and was awarded in one class only. It was exclusively reserved for members of the Imperial Family and for foreign Royalty (with the single exception of the Grand Vizier Tewfik Pasha). The Order was awarded on only 50 occasions in total, and became obsolete following the abolition of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1924. His Highness Prince Ömer Faruk (1898-1969) was an Ottoman prince and the only son of the last Caliph of Islam Abdulmejid II, and the nephew of Sultan Mehmet VI. He served during the Great War as an Officer in the Imperial Army, and having been awarded the Order of Hanedani Ali Osman wore the Collar Badge as his principal neck decoration whilst in uniform. Photographs of the recipient in his uniform prior to the revolution clearly show him wearing the Collar Badge as a neck badge. Following the exile of the Imperial Family in March 1924, during which all his Orders and Decorations were left behind, Prince Ömer Faruk moved with his family to Nice, before moving to Egypt in 1938. There he became close to H.M. King Farouk, who had the court jewellers Naguib Bey manufacture the Badge in this lot, as a replacement of the original, and presented it to the exiled prince as a token of friendship and esteem (letter included with lot refers). The exact date of manufacture and presentation is unknown, but presumably happened sometime in the 1940s, before King Farouk himself was exiled in July 1952.