Panama, Republic, An Order Of Vasco Nuñez De Balboa, Miniature Decoration Archive Black wool upper and underside

Black wool upper and underside

Instituted 18 December 1913 by Grand Duke Friedrich II

including a NS-Gemeinschaft “Kraft durch Freude” Gau Franken badge for the 1935 Sunday Ride

fabricated from teak wood

Officers and men

Panama, Republic, An Order Of Vasco Nuñez De Balboa, Miniature Decoration Archive Black wool upper and underside(Orden de Vasco Nuez de Balboa). Instituted on January 28, 1933. In silver gilt, a four armed cross with white enamelled arms, featuring a delicate enameled green laurel wreath in each quadrant also in gilt, the obverse with a gilded facing left portrait of Vasco Nuez de Balboa, Spanish explorer and conqueror, on a background of white enamel, along with gilded inscription ORDEN DE VASCO NUEZ DE BALBOA, presenting plain reverse with a central medallion