Spain, Fascist State. An Order of Saint Raymond Of Peñafort, Collar Chain, c.1955 Auction Archive ” As Captain Eric Elkington

” As Captain Eric Elkington recalled seven decades later “We were rescued by a Japanese war ship"

on loop for suspension from a Third Reich-era reissued ribbon

resulting in a case of "shell shock"

with the left side painted in a Prussian black and white colour scheme

with 9 soldiers

Spain, Fascist State. An Order of Saint Raymond Of Peñafort, Collar Chain, c.1955 Auction Archive ” As Captain Eric Elkington(Orden de la Cruz de San Raimundo de Peafort). Instituted in 1944. Badge in silver gilt, with a Maltese cross in white enamel, interlinking ropes in each quadrant, the obverse centerpiece illustrating a standing Saint Raymond in blue, red, and white enamels, holding a book, a disk halo in yellow enamel around his head, wrapped around the bottom of the figure sits a blue enameled banner with the words IN JURE MERITA, measuring 47 mm (h) x 47. 7 mm (w).