Bavaria, Kingdom. A Royal Merit Order Of St. Michael, Bronze Merit Medal Auction before returning to South Australia

before returning to South Australia in 1945 and serving there until 1949

enamel chipping and loss on the reverse centrepiece ring

scuffed in a few places on the obverse but does not intefere with the image itself)

5 mm rosette

Czechoslovakia

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Royal Merit Order Of St. Michael, Bronze Merit Medal Auction before returning to South Australia(Bayerisch Kniglicher Verdienstorden vom Heiligen Michael, Bronzene Medaille). Issued 1894 1918. A round bronze medal; the obverse depicting St. Michael slaying a dragon his shield reads Quis Ut Deus (Latin Who [is] like God?); the reverse inscribed Virtuti (German Virtue); on a loop for suspension from a correct replacement ribbon; 35. 95 mm in diameter; weighing 19. 6 grams; in overall very fine condition.