Bulgaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Iv Class Officer With Case, C.1920 Auction Archive featuring a vertical row of

featuring a vertical row of six silver pebbled buttons meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes

the stitching holding the panels in place at the front behind the cockade having come away

in a wide variety of sizes

as his father had been in the Imperial Service for twenty-one years

hessian backer on the insignia

Bulgaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Iv Class Officer With Case, C.1920 Auction Archive featuring a vertical row of( ). Instituted in 1900. In bronze gilt with red, white and green enamels, measuring 51. 5 mm (h) x 81 mm (h) inclusive of its Imperial crown suspension, chipping evident on one of the white enamelled jewels at the base of the crown, otherwise the enamels are intact, on its original triangular ribbon with hook and eye, near extremely fine. In its hardshelled case of issue, marked with the Imperial crown above the inscription " IV. Ciii." in gold