Garry Stone

On 01/08/2020 at 01:24, heusy68 said:

The 2nd Class of the Order of Hamudieh is much more elusive, as, according to the Zanzibar Gazette, there was only 1 award of this Class, to Captain A.L. Agnes.

This gold insignia was for long time for sale at Armory of St James in London, then about 2005 or 2006 Andreas Tammam, the great specialist of Zanzibar Order bought it, and in November 2008, it was auctioned by UBS Basel, when Tammam had decided to sell his terrific World Order collection.

In October 2019 Sincona of Zurich put for auction, a large selection of Zanzibar Order, most from provenance of Andreas Tammam Collection. This photo is from Sincona Catalogue (but the photo that was in the UBS Catalogue of 2008 is the same).

In the center of the insignia, is the cypher of the Sultan : Sayyid Hamoud bin M'hamed bin Said 1314 .

Tammam states that only 10 months between the installation of Sultan Hamoud, and the first awards on 20 June 1897, and thus the insgnias of the 2nd & 3rd Classes had to be "improvised".

The 2nd Class was said to be a neck badge with a breast star. 

Regards to all.

      Emmanuel

The Second Class of the Order of Hamondieh was awarded to Captain Arthur Le Page AGNEW, who was my wife's Great grandfather.  I have the Order and a picture of him wearing it. 

On 01/08/2020 at 01:24, heusy68 said: