Spain, Kingdom. A Military Order Of St. Hermenegildo, Grand Cross, C.1900 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac bright patina

bright patina

Accompanied by “This is the Army” pamphlet from the 1943 All-Soldier Musical Show

joined together at the bottom by a National Socialist Flyers Corps (NSFK) insignia in the form of Icarus

constructed of an olive-drab rayon base

all on bluish-gray wool

Spain, Kingdom. A Military Order Of St. Hermenegildo, Grand Cross, C.1900 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac bright patina(Real y Militar Orden de San Hermenegildo). Instituted 1814 by King Ferdinand VII of Spain. Alphonso XIII's issue. Of high quality manufacture in silver gilt, an enameled white four armed cross with finely faceted edges, surmounted by a period Spanish royal crown also in silver gilt, the obverse centre exhibiting a superimposed riding figure of St. Hermenegildo in gilt, with an enameled light blue background, encircled by an enameled deep blue ring