Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order With Swords, Ii Class Knight, C.1914 Auction Archive The woods being very thick

The woods being very thick

32 mm in diameter

and with the upper right wing closest to the eagle with traces of a vein

the Battalion was redesignated the 124th Pioneer Battalion

inscribed HONI * SOIT * QUI * MAL * Y * PENSE * (SHAME ON HIM WHO THINK ILL OF IT)

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order With Swords, Ii Class Knight, C.1914 Auction Archive The woods being very thick(Militr Verdienstkreuz). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. Type I. (1866 1921 Issue). A silver Maltese Cross with blue enamelled arms, the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a silver crowned cipher of King Ludwig within a white enamelled border in the form of a buckled belt with silver letters reading MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse with a central black enamelled medallion bearing a silver crowned Bavarian lion rampant