Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order In Gold, I Class Grand Cross, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1910 certificate_of_authenticity with a shield below bearing

with a shield below bearing a lion

with a non-swiveling crown directly above

after visiting the Cushing homestead on the Bark River (present day Cushing Park) and the parents of the three historic Cushing Brothers

known as the “Type II” version

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order In Gold, I Class Grand Cross, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1910 certificate_of_authenticity with a shield below bearing(Bayerische Militrverdienstorden I Klasse). Instituted 19 July 1866. (1905 1918 Issue). An exquisite award consisting of a hollow Gold Maltese cross with blue enameled arms and hand etched Gold flames in each quadrant, centre obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a crowned cipher of King Ludwig III and surrounded by a broad white enameled ring in the form of a buckled belt, inscribed MERENTI (MERIT), in Gold lettering, reverse centre