Cuba, Republic. An Order of Carlos Manuel De Cespedes, Grand Cross Set visually-hidden a cross pattée of multi-piece

a cross pattée of multi-piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed frame

one light stain on the medal bed

maker marked "GORHAM" (Gorham Manufacturing Company)

of identical construction and appearance

then in Paris during the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte

Cuba, Republic. An Order of Carlos Manuel De Cespedes, Grand Cross Set visually-hidden a cross pattée of multi-pieceInstituted 1926. A lovely Cuban manufactured Grand Cross Set, consisting of a sash badge, in silver gilt, a coloured enamel decoration, the central medallion consisting of a front facing bust of Carlos Manuel De Cespedes, surrounded by a blue enamel ring inscribed CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES 1868 (Year of Cuban Independence), surrounded by a silver gilded wreath, with ten silver ornately decorated bursts stemming from the wreath, evenly spaced on a blue