Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spain Cross, Silver Grade with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example visually-hidden Long Service and Meritorious Service

Long Service and Meritorious Service Medals

page 3774 and is mentioned in an extract from Burke's Handbook of the OBE in 1920

measuring 32 mm (w) x 355 mm (l)

In an Overseas Board Report

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spain Cross, Silver Grade with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example visually-hidden Long Service and Meritorious Service(Spanienkreuz in Silber mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered bronze, consisting of a slightly vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastika, bearing a central mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with an unusual attachment apparatus, consisting of a barrel hinge and vertical pinback design most commonly