Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal, on Single Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac pitting on the BWM

pitting on the BWM

maker marked "SPINK & SON LTD

crack in the blue enamel centrepiece to the left of President Bokassa

Footnote: Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris

circa 1914

Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal, on Single Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac pitting on the BWM(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege an Einzelspange). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a single mount with a horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross with pebbled arms, overlaid by a central German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE