Spain, Spanish State. An Agricultural Order of Merit, Grand Cross Star, in Gold Auction Archive 1920 Pattern

1920 Pattern

measuring 100 mm (w) x 85 mm (h)

arriving in France on August 11th

with the officers and men being "scattered in every direction"

and at times the world's largest

Spain, Spanish State. An Agricultural Order of Merit, Grand Cross Star, in Gold Auction Archive 1920 Pattern(Orden al Mrito Agrcola). Instituted on December 1, 1905 by King Alfonso XIII. Type I. A Grand Cross Breast Star, a silver gilt base with green enamelled arms, with an 18K Gold medallion with central silver disc depicting a woman plowing, encircled by a white ring inscribed MERIOT AGRICOLA, with gold and red green enamelled agricultural symbols around the exterior, with a central Spanish shield, the reverse presents a carved vertical pin flanked by