Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac by whose devotion a nation

by whose devotion a nation lives

LeRoy & Company of Paris in 1912

the base maker marked with the logo of Karl-Heinz Klette

measuring 101 mm (w) x 133 mm (h)

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac by whose devotion a nation(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with its arms joined together through the quadrants by sun rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, bearing a central white enameled disc overlaid by a black swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), the