Spain, Franco’s Period. A Civil Order Of Alfonso X The Wise, Commander With Gold And Diamond Loop, C. 1950 Newly Listed bronze and white enamels)

bronze and white enamels)

the reverse with a central raised monogram of King Wilhelm I

the lid bearing a gilt embossed mobile swastika

he was commissioned as a Lieutenant (Junior Grade)

Spain, Franco’s Period. A Civil Order Of Alfonso X The Wise, Commander With Gold And Diamond Loop, C. 1950 Newly Listed bronze and white enamels)(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