Rare Original Grand Cross of MILITARY MERIT for German General, Cased

Description

Extremely Rare Spanish
Grand Cross
of MILITARY MERIT for German General, Cased
This item depicted in the images below is an original Spanish Grand Cross of Military Merit Award. Complete Set, Red, White, Silk Sash with Medal to Bottom 41 mm x 48 mm. Enamel, Gold over Silver.
The Breast Badge 63 mm x 63 mm. Solid Silver Plated with Gold.
Highest Award given By General Franco to Generals of the German Luftwaffe and Other German Forces During the Spanish Civil War. Pictures of 3rd Reich Generals are found wearing this award - please see the images.
Gilt-edged White enamel Greek cross on swivel crown suspension; the face with an imposed circular central medallion in red, white enamel and gilt metal bearing an escutcheon quarterly of Castile and Leon with Granada overall.
The Order was created by Queen Isabel II in 1864 for military merit. The cross is of white enamel in times of peace, and of red in times of war.
This is from the period 1938 to 1943.
Fantastic XF+ condition set and RARELY found. Acquired from old time European collection.
Superb massive order of best old jewelier's quality! For now impossible to find award in case like this.
Recently the same order was estimated up to
2100 EURO (
50
)
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WIKIPEDIA
: The Condor Legion (German: Legion Condor) was a unit composed of military personnel from the air force and army of Nazi Germany, which served with the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War of July 1936 to March 1939. The Condor Legion developed methods of strategic bombing which were used widely in the Second World War shortly afterwards. The bombing of Guernica was the most infamous operation carried out by the Condor Legion. Hugo Sperrle commanded the unit's aircraft formations and Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma commanded the ground element.