Spain, Franco Period. An Order of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Breast Star, c.1960 Auction Archive Hesse-Darmstadt

Hesse-Darmstadt

41 mm (w) x 24

Holloway was wounded on the occasion of the attack on our boats in the Prah [14 August 1873]

and measures 62 mm x 48 mm

Chust died on December 9

Spain, Franco Period. An Order of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Breast Star, c.1960 Auction Archive Hesse-Darmstadt(Orden al Mrito Civil). Instituted by King Alfonso XIII on June 25, 1926. 1940 1975 Issue. In silver gilt, a multirayed eight pointed star with beaded arms, the obverse is superposed by a blue enamelled white edged four armed cross also in silver, featuring the central inscription AL MERITO CIVIL (To Civil Merit), the cross is surmounted by a period Imperial crown also in silver gilt, the reverse with principal pin assembly flanked by two stays,