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

edged with white waffenfarbe rayon threads (indicating Infantry formations)

and at times the world's largest

shadow box-style

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