Ecuador, Republic. A National Order of Merit, Grand Cross Set Newly Listed undulated and lightly soiled)

undulated and lightly soiled)

chipping at the tips of four arm points

reverse inscribed "Serie E

after the sixth patrol with U-564

Ecuador, Republic. A National Order of Merit, Grand Cross Set Newly Listed undulated and lightly soiled)(Orden Nacional al Mrito). Instituted October 8, 1921. A Grand Cross Set, comprising a Sash Badge, in silver gilt, a twelve ray badge with red enamels, with segments of green enamel wreath weaving over and under alternating rays, the obverse medallion in silver gilt portraying three mountains with a smiling sun, the inscription reads REPUBLIC DEL ECUADOR AL MERITO, the reverse plain, 55. 75 mm (w) x 60. 88 mm (h), weighs 114. 35 grams (including