Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order War Merit Cross, First Class Archive but has few bumps and

but has few bumps and bruises

top and bottom edges trimmed in a strip of yellow cotton-rayon

and executed

and with his NCO’s Afrika version embroidered breast eagle

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order War Merit Cross, First Class Archive but has few bumps and(Militrverdienstkreuz des Militrverdienstorden 1. Klasse). Issued 1913 1918. A Maltese cross in gilded silver; the obverse with a central medallion bearing the crowned cipher of King Ludwig II within a border in the form of a buckled belt inscribed with lettering reading Merenti (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central medallion bearing a crowned Bavarian lion within a border in the form of a buckled belt with numbers reading 1866; suspended from a