Württemberg, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Knight Cross, C.1914 Archive 13 mm x 15 mm)

13 mm x 15 mm)

Peter Bloomfield of Fifeshire

7) A Hesse Military Merit Cross ribbon

with its paper backer fully preserved on the reverse - with a maker’s label reading “C

Silver Grade - In tombac

Württemberg, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Knight Cross, C.1914 Archive 13 mm x 15 mm)(Militr Verdienstorden Ritterkreuz). Instituted on 11 February 1759. Type VII. (1914 1918 Issue). A gilded silver Maltese cross patte with white enameled arms, the 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), the reverse with a central white enameled medallion, bearing the crowned royal cipher, inscribed FURCHTLOS UND