Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order In Gold, I Class Grand Cross, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1910 GTRexclude with four gray metal buttons

with four gray metal buttons at the fly

then in Kiev

205 mm x 252 mm

Merit Cross for War Aid

92 mm x 397 mm

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order In Gold, I Class Grand Cross, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1910 GTRexclude with four gray metal buttons(Bayerische Militrverdienstorden I Klasse). Instituted 19 July 1866. (1905 1918 Issue). An exquisite award consisting of a hollow Gold Maltese cross with blue enameled arms and hand etched Gold flames in each quadrant, centre obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a crowned cipher of King Ludwig III and surrounded by a broad white enameled ring in the form of a buckled belt, inscribed MERENTI (MERIT), in Gold lettering, reverse centre