Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal, Women’s Issue Auction Archive 3 mm x 30 mm

3 mm x 30 mm

in card forwarding box

worn on a replacement ribbon with 1911 and 1912 bars

In silver and red

The Order of Saint Raymond of Penafort - Two-piece construction

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal, Women’s Issue Auction Archive 3 mm x 30 mm(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege fr Frauen). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original bow tie ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised and pebbled Geneva Cross, overlaid by a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR THE CARE OF THE