Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Set, By Cejalvo, C.1950 certificate_of_authenticity accompanied by a metal tri-colour

accompanied by a metal tri-colour cockade

It is possible

number 170299 (issued to Claude Hebden

East Hampshire on May 29

Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Set, By Cejalvo, C.1950 certificate_of_authenticity accompanied by a metal tri-colour(Orden del Mrito Civil). Instituted 1926 by King Alfonso XII of Spain; re instituted 1942 by General Francisco Franco. Francos issue. Of Spanish manufacture, a sash badge consisting of a multiple rayed four armed cross in silver gilt, superposing by an enameled blue white bordered Saltire cross inscribed AL MERITO CIVIL (To Civil Merit), surmounting by period Imperial Spanish crown also in silver gilt, with plain reverse, suspending by an enameled