Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross of the German Mother, Gold Grade with Case, by B.H. Mayer Auction blackened badge

blackened badge

Daughters of Holland Dames Membership Badge (two-piece construction

The Nationalists won the war and ruled Spain until General Francisco Franco’s death in 1975

octagonal-shaped

measuring 28 mm (w) x 31

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross of the German Mother, Gold Grade with Case, by B.H. Mayer Auction blackened badge(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold 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 through the quadrants by stylized rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, bearing a central white enameled disc overlaid by a black swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), the