Bavaria, Kingdom. A Royal Merit Order Of St. Michael, Silver Merit Medal, C.1900 Auction Fine quality

Fine quality

eight are officer grade (H

% Fleet Postmaster

to commemorate the 1904-1905 conflict between the Russian and the Japanese Empires

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Royal Merit Order Of St. Michael, Silver Merit Medal, C.1900 Auction Fine quality(Bayerisch Kniglicher Verdienstorden vom heiligen Michael, Silberne Medaille). Instituted on 16 February 1837. (1887 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a finely detailed depicting of St. Michael trampling the devil and clutching a shield inscribed QUIS UT DEUS (WHO IS LIKE GOD), overlaid on a ribbed Cross Patte, the reverse with a central inscription of VIRTUTI (VIRTUE), within