Cuba, Republic. An Order Of Carlos Manuel Cespedes, I Class Grand Cross, C.1935 Hold twenty-three black and white photographs

twenty-three black and white photographs (documenting his life: beginning with Sikes as a child

and faded letters in some parts

Canadian Forestry Corps on October 15

21/22" on the reverse

dated April 1951

Cuba, Republic. An Order Of Carlos Manuel Cespedes, I Class Grand Cross, C.1935 Hold twenty-three black and white photographs(Orden Carlos Manuel de Cespedes). Instituted on 18 April 1926. A circular badge constructed of silver, the obverse centre presenting the full face portrait of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes within a blue enamelled ring inscribed CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES 1868, encircled by a silver laurel wreath projecting silver oak leaves onto a blue enamel ring, surrounded by a green and red enameled laurel and oak leaf wreath, the reverse centre presents the Cuban