Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order With Swords, Ii Class Knight, C.1914 Auction Archive measuring 69 mm (w) x

measuring 69 mm (w) x 69 mm (h)

The Pilot made a safe landing in a field near the canal

reverse with superposed gilded cypher of King Carlos I on a red enamelled background

the Battalion was redesignated the 124th Pioneer Battalion

inscribed HONI * SOIT * QUI * MAL * Y * PENSE * (SHAME ON HIM WHO THINK ILL OF IT)

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order With Swords, Ii Class Knight, C.1914 Auction Archive measuring 69 mm (w) x(Militr Verdienstkreuz). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. Type I. (1866 1921 Issue). A silver Maltese Cross with blue enamelled arms, the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a silver crowned cipher of King Ludwig within a white enamelled border in the form of a buckled belt with silver letters reading MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse with a central black enamelled medallion bearing a silver crowned Bavarian lion rampant