Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Richard Sieper & Söhne GTRexclude 1918 and carries the king’s

1918 and carries the king’s facsimile signature

and evenly embossed national eagle watermark on the bottom right of the page

Elsie Thorpe (Wood) Hebden of the Isle of Man

The tip of the scabbard features a polished and ribbed magnetic metal fixture

measuring 88 mm (w) x 154 mm (h)

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Richard Sieper & Söhne GTRexclude 1918 and carries the king’s(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),