Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Ziemer & Söhne Auction 8 mm x 48 mm

8 mm x 48 mm

there is a pocket sewn in place on the left breast

and Prussia: Guards Badge (in bronze

the increased secularization of the country

Instituted from 1885

Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Ziemer & Söhne Auction 8 mm x 48 mm(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold). Instituted 16 December 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original shortened ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with blue and white enameled arms, the obverse with a central medallion bearing a black swastika on a white enameled background, circumscribed by a gilt inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (THE GERMAN MOTHER),