Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iv Class With Swords, C.1915 Newly Listed Reference OMRS Journal Spring 1975

Reference OMRS Journal Spring 1975

A Cross Pattée of multi-piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border

The documents of the Order of the Eastern Star are dated to Dresden

with off-white cotton threads giving definition to the wings

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iv Class With Swords, C.1915 Newly Listed Reference OMRS Journal Spring 1975(Militr Verdienstkreuz IV. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. (1905 1918 Issue). A silver Maltese Cross with blue enameled arms, with flames between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a silver crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with silver letters reading MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse with a central black enameled