Spain, Kingdom. An Order of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Breast Star, c.1960 certificate_of_authenticity Olive Cooke

Olive Cooke

a Košice Golden Treasure medal

marked "C&R" on the reverse

had served for 8 years with the Army Service Corps of the British Army

Spain, Kingdom. An Order of Civil Merit, Grand Cross Breast Star, c.1960 certificate_of_authenticity Olive Cooke(Orden al Mrito Civil). Instituted by King Alfonso XIII on June 25, 1926. Of high quality manufacture, an exceptional and desirable beaded eight armed cross in polished silver, the obverse in silver gilt featuring an unusual superimposed silver female figure on an enameled white background, circumscribed by an enameled blue white framed four armed cross with the inscription AL MERITO CIVIL (To Civil Merit), crowned by period Spanish imperial crown in