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A couple of breast stars

Actually every order is a unique because of manual painting of medallions

Another two full sets

Rosette

Another set

1st class (Grand Gordon) All Humayun orders in all (?) classes have two variations by painting of central medallion (number of sun rays) “Five rays” variation “360 degree rays” variation The most common variation is “Five rays” variation. Here it is.

Sometimes breast stars and badges of Homāyūn order don’t have ARTHUS-BERTRAND marks, but mark “a wheel gear topped by a star” (although practically unreadable) is always in place (where “place” is pin of the breast star or suspension ring of the badge). Now let’s examine the order and its variations.

In turn embedded ARTHUS-BERTRAND has two variations thick letters thin letters

ARTHUS BERTRAND PARIS (embedded)

ARTHUS-BERTRAND (embedded)

In addition to the mark "wheel gear topped by a star" Arthus-Bertrand marked its Humayun orders with the company name. This mark has at least three different variants. ARTHUS-BERTRAND (convex)

Very often these marks (due to their tiny size) are practically unreadable and will look like pentagon with something inside

Third variant is a wheel gear topped by a star+ AB&Co + (underneath) 800. Actually sometimes second variants is the third with void AB&Co

Another variant of this mark is a wheel gear topped by a star + (underneath) 800.

Arthus-Bertrand Marks Its classical hallmark a wheel gear topped by a star Arthus-Bertrand got in 1911.

Order of August (a.k.a. the Imperial Order or simply Order of Humayun) was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi on February 15, 1939. Order had 5 classes and obviously was structured after french Légion d'honneur. The main (and most likely the only) manufacturer of order was french firm Arthus Bertrand (official court jeweler ). It will be interesting to examine different marks that Arthus Bertrand was using through the years.

Sacred treasure (most likely 4th class)