Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit & Mecklenburg-Schwerin Long Service Bar Hold obverse centre featuring a superimposed

obverse centre featuring a superimposed gilded portrait of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

marked with small W for Carl Wurster

Eisernes Kreuz

Over time of the Order additional grades were added

marked with the Paulmann & Crone

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit & Mecklenburg-Schwerin Long Service Bar Hold obverse centre featuring a superimposedA three place medal bar consisting of a Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross with Crown and Swords, Instituted 19 July 1866. A Maltese cross paty constructed of zinc, with crossed Roman swords above the 12 oclock cross arm, the obverse centre presents a circular central medallion bearing the crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a circular border in the form of a buckled belt inscribed MERENTI (MERIT) above, with arabesques below, the reverse