Spain, Spanish State. A Spanish War Cross Breast Star, Red Lion Variant, c. 1940 visually-hidden without pension

without pension

stationed in the Mediterranean

bearing a central date of “1932” (the founding of the Magyar Nemzeti Szocialista Földmunkás és Munkáspárt or Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers’ and Workers’ Party)

after it was re-organized following the restructuring of the Republican Armed Forces in September 1936

Spain, Spanish State. A Spanish War Cross Breast Star, Red Lion Variant, c. 1940 visually-hidden without pensionConstructed of a silver alloy with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a vaulted eight pointed star, overlaid by a gilded cross with its arms joined together through the quadrants by a circular laurel leaf wreath and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, overlaid by a central enameled medallion bearing the coat of arms of Castile and Len, with the lions executed in red enamel, within a blue enameled ring bearing a gilt