Wurttemberg. A Military Merit Order, I Class Miniature Knight In Gold, C.1914 certificate_of_authenticity After the Confederate attack

After the Confederate attack

Motto "Nescit occasum" (It knows no decline) in Gold lettering

Merit Cross 1849 (silver and enamels

also survives

not correct for this award

Wurttemberg. A Military Merit Order, I Class Miniature Knight In Gold, C.1914 certificate_of_authenticity After the Confederate attack(Militr Verdienstorden Ritterkreuz). Instituted on 11 February 1759. Type VII. (1914 1918 Issue). A Gold Maltese cross patte with white enameled arms, obverse with a central white enameled medallion with a green enameled laurel wreath, surrounded by a broad blue enameled ring, inscribed FURCHTLOS UND TREW (FEARLESS AND LOYAL), reverse with a central white enameled medallion, bearing the crowned royal cipher, inscribed FURCHTLOS UND TREW (FEARLESS AND