Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Forster & Graf Archive 09 mm (w) x 62

09 mm (w) x 62

soiled white shoelace attached and tied together at the ends)

measuring 34 mm (w) x 39 mm (h) inclusive of its integral suspension

designer marked "KAUKO RASANEN" below the heads

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Forster & Graf Archive 09 mm (w) x 62(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamel, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with its arm joined through the quadrants by stylized sun rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, with a central white enameled disc bearing a black swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), the