Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit With Brilliance, Grand Cross Star, C.1940 GTRexclude 56mm x 61mm

56mm x 61mm

hand engraved with the initials "M S F"

Includes: Congo

the obverse bearing a raised Hohenzollern coat of arms

Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit With Brilliance, Grand Cross Star, C.1940 GTRexclude 56mm x 61mm(Orden al Mrito Civil). Instituted by King Alfonso XIII on June 25, 1926. Of high quality manufacture, an exceptional and desirable beaded eight armed cross in polished silver, the obverse in silver gilt featuring an unusual superimposed silver female figure on an enameled white background, circumscribed by an enameled blue white framed four armed cross with the inscription AL MERITO CIVIL (To Civil Merit), crowned by period Spanish imperial crown in