Bavaria, Kingdom. A Royal Order of Merit of St. Michael, I Class Knight’s Cross Miniature in Gold, c. 1860 Buy Now five with brooch pinbacks

five with brooch pinbacks

number hand engraved "3958" on the reverse

Footnote: The 12th Mounted Rifle Battalion was organized on March 15

Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a black wool backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire NSKK-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Royal Order of Merit of St. Michael, I Class Knight’s Cross Miniature in Gold, c. 1860 Buy Now five with brooch pinbacks(Kniglicher Verdienstorden vom Heiligen Michael, Ritterkreuz I. Klasse in Gold Miniatur). Instituted 16 February 1837 by King Ludwig I. (1837 1887 issue). Constructed of Gold with enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with blue enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central blue enameled medallion overlaid by a gilt inscription of QUIS ET DEUS (WHO IS LIKE GOD?, the translation of the Hebrew name Michael), the arms with lightning bolts emanating from the