The former is marker marked “VILLANUEVA Y LAISECA
trimmed at the top and bottom with a light blue woven piping
and it was intended to be worn from a ribbon around the neck
Although the King of Spain offered to intervene
the obverse presents an the order’s coat of arms in addition to the maker mark MONS
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot Of Decorations consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The former is marker marked(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of three decorations, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR KRIEGS VERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 22 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 8 grams, in extremely fine condition. 2. A Civil