Spain, Spanish State. An Order of Cisneros, Grand Officer’s Set Republic of and Bomber Planes

and Bomber Planes

The ships of Force H

exhibiting just minor wear and age

the interior presents the maker mark GARRARD & Co in the lid

suspended from its green ribbon with red central stripe

Spain, Spanish State. An Order of Cisneros, Grand Officer’s Set Republic of and Bomber Planes(Orden de Cisneros). Instituted March 8, 1944 by General Francisco Franco. A Grand Officers Set, comprising a neck badge, a silver gilt and red enamelled Maltese cross with large ball finials, five silver gilt arrows in each quadrant, the obverse medallion features a black enamelled bird with a yellow sun behind its head, the reverse plain with two large rivets, measures 47. 7 mm (w) x 51. 8 mm (h), worn on a long full neck ribbon, minor enamel