Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, II Class with Swords Province of China 57 mm (w) x 56

57 mm (w) x 56

60th Regiment

to try to thwart the breakouts of the German Battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst

6135 (the historically significant grouping from the estate of Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch)

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, II Class with Swords Province of China 57 mm (w) x 56(Militrverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. (1905 1913 issue). Constructed of silvered copper with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from a replacement ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central black enameled medallion overlaid by a raised monogram of King Ludwig II, situated within a stylized white enameled belt and buckle bearing an inscription