Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Cisneros In Gold & Diamonds, Knight Cross, C.1950 certificate_of_authenticity measuring 118 mm in diameter

measuring 118 mm in diameter at the base x 355 mm in height

a Flying Fortress being ferried to England crashed on the Greenland Ice Cap

minor scuffing at edges

gilt characters on the lid

on July 6th 1944

Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Cisneros In Gold & Diamonds, Knight Cross, C.1950 certificate_of_authenticity measuring 118 mm in diameter(Orden de Cisneros). Instituted in 1944 by General Francisco Franco. Issued 1944 1975. Likely French manufacture, an exquisite and highly scarce ball tipped Maltese Cross in Gold, the ball finials embellishing by genuine brilliant cut Diamonds on each arm, with non genuine rubies illustrating the insignias red arms, featuring delicate Gold crossed arrows in each quadrant, the obverse displaying a highly performance hand painted Spanish eagle in black