Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath Archive 1902 as a "Horseman"

1902 as a "Horseman"

with handwritten inscriptions in black ink on two pages ("V

being promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer

engraver marked ""DUVIV""

Footnote: The Sicherfeits und Hilfsdienste (S

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath Archive 1902 as a "Horseman"(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 together 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