Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Set, By Cejalvo, C.1950 certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The Order of Military

Footnote: The Order of Military Merit was instituted on August 3

and silver buttons superimposed on the top

A Maltese cross

26 mm x 120 mm)

September 1944" with Taffy's name beside two swastikas designating his two "kills" and stamped "PLANET NEWS LTD

Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Set, By Cejalvo, C.1950 certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The Order of Military(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