WHAT ARE THESE 3 DIPLOMAS? CERTIFICATES? FROM SPAIN

I met Juan Carlos. We literally ran into each other while walking with our heads down in Bancroft Hall at the Naval Academy about 1960. He was very polite and we helped pick up the stuff we were carrying. He was fairly handsome then. He was a great sailor and enjoyed jockeying some of the sloops around at the academy. Interesting, he is a member of the SAR (Sons of the American Revolution).
Patd

 

you've just become more interesting !!!!

 

That's interesting. Didn't know he (Juan Carlos I) was a member of SAR so looked it up. Not patriot descendent but his ancestor Carlos III supported the Revolution.

Debora

 

So much explanations but nobody told you that you're now the owner of Spain with these papers Must be jealousy from them

 

Here are the stamps on the back of the 2 Franco pieces.
PS - I looked at both - front & back - and all the signatures look hand written to me.

 

Look at Franco's signature on 2nd order - the second F trails down into the sentence below it, while the first doesn't - hand written?

 

My vote is autopen. This is a quick job and I had to make adjustments for different angles of pics.

Of course, it can't hurt to have it checked out by someone with expert knowledge on sigs/autopens.

 

In 1975, Franco died of Parkinson's from which he had been suffering for many years.

Debora

 

And when I went to Catalunya, a few weeks later, they were already changing the street signs from Castellano to Catalan and you heard the language being spoken openly.

Old joke. A man buys a copy of El Pais from a Barcelona paper seller every day, stares at the front page for a moment and throws it into the bin immediately. This goes on for years. Eventually, the paper vendor's curiousity gets the better of him and he asks the man why he does this.

"I'm looking for the obituaries". He replies.

"But those are on the back page?" says the newspaper man.

"NOT THE ONE I'M LOOKING FOR!"

 

I am going to put these on eBay - which is the order of Isabella & which is the civil merit? (they 2 first ones (Franko) look the same to me!)
Thanks all

 

The end of the third line has the name of the order. It will either say Isabel la Catolica or Mérito Civil.

Debora