Spain, Fascist State. An Order Of Military Merit, II Class Star, c.1950 Archive (Einwohnerwehren Mitgliedsabzeichen)

(Einwohnerwehren Mitgliedsabzeichen)

58 Casualty Clearing Station the same day

It is plain with the exception of a maker’s mark near the reverse ricasso of “ORIGINAL EICKHORN

typeset in black text

talking about Germany being “blamed” for inciting the First War and having been betrayed by the Weimar politicians

Spain, Fascist State. An Order Of Military Merit, II Class Star, c.1950 Archive (Einwohnerwehren Mitgliedsabzeichen)(Orden del Mrito Militar). Instituted by Queen Isabel II on August 3, 1864. A six pointed star with multirayed arms in silvered bronze, the obverse is superimposed by an enameled white four armed cross in bronze gilt, presenting alternated gilded lions and castles in each quadrant, with a central period Spanish coat of arms in enamels, 12 oclock arms depicts a gilded clasp surmounted by a period Spanish crown both in bronze gilt, the reverse with pin