Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross With Swords, Iii Class, C.1915 Newly Listed 5 mm (w) x 42

5 mm (w) x 42

The year before the Great War broke out

the cotton has yellowed with age and there are sporadic tears and patches of mothing

2nd Pattern (CSSR - in silver

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross With Swords, Iii Class, C.1915 Newly Listed 5 mm (w) x 42Instituted 19 July 1866. A Maltese cross paty constructed of zinc, with crossed Roman swords above the 12 oclock cross arm, the obverse centre presents a circular central medallion bearing the crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a circular border in the form of a buckled belt inscribed MERENTI (MERIT) above, with arabesques below, the reverse centre bearing the Bavarian crowned lion rampant within a circular border in the form of a buckled belt