Spain, Franco’s Period. A Civil Order Of Alfonso X The Wise, Commander With Gold And Diamond Loop, C. 1950 Auction the monogram of Queen Victoria

the monogram of Queen Victoria surmounted by the Victorian Crown in bronze gilt affixed to the tab and surrounded by a full wreath of laurel leaves

two letters of correspondence to and one from the Militia Headquarters in Ottawa

65 mm x 93 mm

measuring on the reverse with a silver content number of “900”

Number 3 (September 1942)

Spain, Franco’s Period. A Civil Order Of Alfonso X The Wise, Commander With Gold And Diamond Loop, C. 1950 Auction the monogram of Queen Victoria(Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio). Instituted 1939 by General Francisco Franco. 1939 present issue. In silver gilt, a red enamelled four armed Shamrock Cross, the obverse centre featuring an enamelled blue medallion with a superposed handmade figure of Alfonso X the Wise, surrounded by the inscription ALFONSO X EL SABIO REY DE CASTILLA Y LEON (Alphonso X the Wise, King of Castile and Leon), reverse depicting engraved typical of time period Spanish