Spain, Spanish State. An Order of Military Merit, I Class Cross (Red Distinction) Auction Archive albeit with an internal type

albeit with an internal type telephone cord (loom)

packet also near extremely fine

two are silvered

All buttons are constructed of gilt bronze with a leather core

presenting lost of green enamels

Spain, Spanish State. An Order of Military Merit, I Class Cross (Red Distinction) Auction Archive albeit with an internal type(Orden del Mrito Militar). Instituted August 3, 1864. In silver gilt, a red enamelled cross with central medallion featuring alternating lions and castilles in red in white quadrants with a central blue, the reverse medallion with a red enamelled MM (Merito Militare) monogram, surmounting imperial crown, marked on the reverse 12 oclock arm with a standard silver star, denoting . 915 fineness between 1934 1988, worn on the original ribbon with brooch