Spain, Fascist State. An Order Of Aeronautical Merit, Grand Cross Breast Star Auction closed by stylized horizontal flaps

closed by stylized horizontal flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting a pebbled

Silver with red and blue enamelled Royal Sussex Regiment insignia measuring 36

Banks & Biddle Tilghman Eagle (Philadelphia – Jenkintown) is identified in “The Insignia of The Society of the Cincinnati” by Minor Meyers

in bronze gilt with white and bright red enamels

traces of glue residue on the reverse from previous board mounting

Spain, Fascist State. An Order Of Aeronautical Merit, Grand Cross Breast Star Auction closed by stylized horizontal flaps(Orden al Mrito Aeronutico). Instituted November 30, 1945 by Francisco Franco. In silver gilt, an eight point star with clusters of faceted rays, the obverse features a white enamelled cross with the Spanish emblem on the front and aeronautical wings on the arms, each quadrant of the cross are alternating lions and castles, the reverse features a single vertical pin flanked by dual stays, marked SJ denoting Stefano Johnson manufacture, measures 69.