Spain, Facsist State. A Doctors of the Extraordinary Cloister of the Royal Academy of the Doctors of Spain Award, c.1945

(Placa de plata de Doctores del Claustro Extraordinario de la La Real Academia de Doctores de España). Instituted in 1922. Multi-piece construction, insignia in silver with cornflower blue enamels, illustrating the Francoist Spanish coat-of-arms used between 1938 and 1945, the arms placed upon a shield, a ribbon banner above inscribed "DOCTORES DEL CLAUSTRO EXTRAORDINARIO" (Doctors of the Extraordinary Cloister), the shield surmounted by the Franco crown, all of which is mounted to an eight-pointed silver gilt base, each star point with five pairs of faceted rays, with a single faceted ray between each star point, unmarked, measuring 88.3 mm (w) x 87.7 mm (h), vertical pinback flanked by dual stays, intact enamels, very light contact, near extremely fine.

Footnote: The Doctors of the Extraordinary Cloister of the Royal Academy of the Doctors of Spain is an institution of a scientific, technical, humanistic and social nature, founded in 1922 from the Extraordinary Cloister of Doctors (1845) and the Deanship and the Federation of Spanish Doctors (1915).