Spain, Napoleonic Kingdom. A Cross For Defenders Of Gerona In Gold, Officer Cross, C.1816 Auction Archive A War Merit Cross

A War Merit Cross

Footnote: Wilhelm (January 27

food or quarters and 7

measuring 80 mm (w) x 81 mm (h)

with a full sized period original ribbon

Spain, Napoleonic Kingdom. A Cross For Defenders Of Gerona In Gold, Officer Cross, C.1816 Auction Archive A War Merit Cross(Distincin Gerona). Instituted 1810. Napoleonic War Period. A Gold red enamelled Maltese Cross with delicate typical Spanish ball finials, featuring detailed Gold castles in each quadrant, suspending by a green enamelled laurel wreath in Gold, a obverse centre in Gold with white enamels exhibiting a superposed Gold figure of Saint Narcissus surrounded by the inscription Del Sitio de Gerona de 1809 (Siege of Gerona in 1809), reverse centre in Gold with