Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Auction Archive HOF & ARMEE LIEFERANTEN /

HOF & ARMEE LIEFERANTEN / METALLWARENFABRIK" on the inside lid

Gold-plated bronze

later drove inserts within the Spanish Civil War

Second Half of Nineteenth Century

early 1900’s

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Auction Archive HOF & ARMEE LIEFERANTEN /(Bayerische Militrverdienstorden IV. Klasse mit Schwertern). Issued 1905 1918. A silver Maltese cross with blue enameled arms, and with flames between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with gold letters reading MERENTI (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold