Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath Newly Listed Legion of Merit Award Document

Legion of Merit Award Document (inscribed "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS

Flanking each side of the cap band are pebbled and silvered buttons securing in place a decorative chinstrap constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire

7 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and ball suspension

bottom left corner with a line drawing of a sweeping panorama featuring Fort Constantine

Of typical wartime manufacture in bronze gilt with well detailed red enamels

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath Newly Listed Legion of Merit Award Document(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 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),