Spain, Fascist State. A War Cross, Breast Star, German-Made for Condor Legion Personnel, c.1940 Auction Archive Black and white cotton embroidery

Black and white cotton embroidery

an Austro-Hungarian Navy uniform button

measuring 154 mm x 83 mm

Constructed of a padded and weatherproofed cotton/rayon blend

All suspended from a 130 mm-long magnetic metal bar with a horizontal pinback and green wool reverse liner

Spain, Fascist State. A War Cross, Breast Star, German-Made for Condor Legion Personnel, c.1940 Auction Archive Black and white cotton embroideryIn silvered bronze with gilt and multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed star with pebbled rays, overlaid by a central coat of arms of Castile and Len, situated within a blue enameled ring bearing a gilt inscription of AL MRITO EN CAMPAA, in turn overlaid a cross with its arms similarly culminating in the coat of arms of Castile and Len and joined through the quadrants by a circular laurel leaf wreath, with crossed swords