Spain, Spanish State. An Agricultural Order of Merit, Grand Cross Star, in Gold Auction Archive 29 mm (w) x 39

29 mm (w) x 39

with horizontal black and gold stripes and a diagonal green crancelin in the middle

and at times the world's largest

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

arriving in France on August 11th

Spain, Spanish State. An Agricultural Order of Merit, Grand Cross Star, in Gold Auction Archive 29 mm (w) x 39(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