Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Jacob Leser Newly Listed unmarked but textbook example by

unmarked but textbook example by company "Petz and Lorenz"

loss of obverse centre surround

having served in Peninsula

surrounded by the inscription "FOUNDED 1754

Army Breast Eagle - In zinc alloy

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Jacob Leser Newly Listed unmarked but textbook example by(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