Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order of Military Merit, IV Class Cross with Swords, by Jacob Leser GTRexclude (NSDAP Ärmelband für Mitglieder)

(NSDAP Ärmelband für Mitglieder)

the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central mobile swastika within dual rings

maker marked KAUTSCH on obverse

some wear to silvering and moderate soiling to ribbon

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order of Military Merit, IV Class Cross with Swords, by Jacob Leser GTRexclude (NSDAP Ärmelband für Mitglieder)(Militr Verdienstorden Kreuz IV. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. (1905 1918). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with blue enameled arms joined through the quadrants by stylized flames, the obverse bearing a central black enameled medallion overlaid by a raised monogram of King Ludwig II, situated with a stylized white enameled belt bearing a silvered inscription of MERENTI with arabesques,