Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Rudolf Souval Archive 2nd Class with War Decoration

2nd Class with War Decoration (silver with red and white enamels

measuring 64 mm (w) x 21

both closing with horizontal flaps meeting black bakelite buttons

Major-General James Ezekiel Edmonds (Senior): Legion of Merit

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Rudolf Souval Archive 2nd Class with War Decoration(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),