Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit Cross, Miniature Iii Class With Swords, C.1916 Hold Hesse-Kassel

Hesse-Kassel

printed in four color inks on a thick off-white paper stock

Includes: Pilot's Badge (in brown

With bronze gilt insignia

with a bronze crowned cypher of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy affixed to a silvered die-stamped metal shield outlined in oak leaves and acorns

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit Cross, Miniature Iii Class With Swords, C.1916 Hold Hesse-Kassel(Militrverdienstorden Kreuz 3. Klasse mit Schwertern). 1905 1918 issue. A silver gilt Maltese cross with four arms in blue enamels, and with silver gilt 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