Spain, Fascist State. A Military Merit Medal, c.1940 Province of China engraved "GUERRE D'ITALIE" above and

engraved "GUERRE D'ITALIE" above and date engraved "1859" below

base with a recessed medal bed in red felt

1883 to Unteroffizier (NCO)

complemented by nine pages of black and white plates (frontispiece

Spain, Fascist State. A Military Merit Medal, c.1940 Province of China engraved "GUERRE D'ITALIE" above and(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal, 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 of arms overlaid on an