Spain, Transition. An Order Of Agricultural Merit, Grand Commander With Case, By M. Cejalvo, C.1950 Auction Archive 5 mm (w) x 59

5 mm (w) x 59 mm (h) inclusive of its bars

displaying nice texture and quality workmanship

Its “farmerettes” assisted in all aspects of farm work

She was commissioned into the Reichsmarine in January 1930

accompanied by its period original LDO case

Spain, Transition. An Order Of Agricultural Merit, Grand Commander With Case, By M. Cejalvo, C.1950 Auction Archive 5 mm (w) x 59(Orden al Mrito Agrario). Instituted 1905 by King Alfonso XIII. Transition period issued. Constructed of silver gilt, consisting of a finely enameled green eight pointed multirayed star, the obverse features an engraved woman plowing the field in gilt, circumscribed by an enameled white border with inscription MERITO AGRICOLA (Agricultural Merit), as well as by a gilt necklace composed by linked Zodiac signs, with a Spanish coat of arms on the base,