Bavaria, Kingdom. A Bavarian Military Merit Cross, Third Class With Swords Auction hilt has brass fittings with

hilt has brass fittings with loops in tact with double headed eagle (eagle heads have worn away from in-out wear)

A former recipient of the SA Sports Badge

dark patina on three of the silver medals

58 mm (w) x 48

non-magnetic

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Bavarian Military Merit Cross, Third Class With Swords Auction hilt has brass fittings with(Militr Verdienstkreuz). Constructed of coppered bronze, presents as a Maltese Cross with crossed swords above the upper arm, the obverse with a circular central medallion with the cypher of King Ludwig III, surrounded by a ring inscribed MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse bearing the Bavarian lion rampant circumscribed by a buckled belt dated 1866, on a loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, unmarked, measuring 43 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), in near