Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Archive Luzon / Yangtze Patrol /

Luzon / Yangtze Patrol / for Privations / during Yangtze / Blockade / 1937-38" on the reverse

January 22

Cross with silver frame

with its original silver finish approximately 80% preserved

Mounted to a 127 mm long dual-strand chain with 34 mm long stickpins at either end

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Archive Luzon / Yangtze Patrol /(Bayerische Militrverdienstorden IV. Klasse mit Schwertern). Issued 1905 1918. A silver Maltese cross with blue enameled arms, and with flames between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with gold letters reading MERENTI (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold