Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed constructed of tan-coloured leather

constructed of tan-coloured leather

the reverse with reinforcements to the cross but otherwise plain

its underlying base in brass

A Turnver 50 Homberg Pin

In machine embroidered silvery threads on green cloth

Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed constructed of tan-coloured leather(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal of period manufacture, the obverse medallion presents a fight facing female figure holding a wreath, with the sun setting in the left background and a shield with a lion face on the on the right, the medallion is surrounded by a silver wreath with a rampant lion on each side, a small banner at 6 oclock reads AL MERITO EN CAMPANA, the reverse presents the Spanish coat