Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, I Class Cross with Swords and Crown, by Gebrüder Hemmerle, c.1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and another one to wear

and another one to wear on chest button

chipping evident in the blue enamels on the obverse centrepiece

complete with the company's stylized star in star insignia

Army-/Waffen-SS

the centre bears the inscription “DEM KANALWARTER KARL HEINR

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, I Class Cross with Swords and Crown, by Gebrüder Hemmerle, c.1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and another one to wear(Militr Verdienstorden, I. Klasse mit Krone und Schwertern). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. Military Division. (1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with its arms joined together through the quadrants by stylized and exceptionally detailed flames, the obverse bearing a central black enamelled medallion overlaid by a gilded and crowned monogram of King Ludwig II, set within a