Bavaria, Kingdom. A Bavarian Military Merit Cross, Third Class With Swords Auction attached to HMS Vulcan on

attached to HMS Vulcan on May 29

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

and had been retired or honourably discharged

head of a tiger separately attached (as it should be on original War time examples)

non-magnetic

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Bavarian Military Merit Cross, Third Class With Swords Auction attached to HMS Vulcan on(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