Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit With Brilliance, Grand Cross Star, C.1940 Auction Upper in steel blue wool

Upper in steel blue wool overlying a white cotton base

Footnote: The Primrose League was an organization for spreading Conservative principles in Great Britain and was founded in 1883

He was initially declared "Missing in Action"

) Naming is officially impressed and is very fine

He took a grenade splinter to the lower right arm

Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit With Brilliance, Grand Cross Star, C.1940 Auction Upper in steel blue wool(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