Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Auction pinned with a gilded bronze

pinned with a gilded bronze rank pip and crown

Badge measures 24

both are otherwise unmarked and measure 44 mm (w) x 115 mm (l)

maker marked "PAUL MANN & CRONE LUDENSCHEID" and marked "GES

measuring 25 mm (w) x 7 mm (h)

Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Auction pinned with a gilded bronze(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal of period manufacture, the obverse medallion presents a fight facing female figure holding a wreath, with the sun setting in the left background and a shield with a lion face on the on the right, the medallion is surrounded by a silver wreath with a rampant lion on each side, a small banner at 6 oclock reads AL MERITO EN CAMPANA, the reverse presents the Spanish coat