Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal, Women’s Issue

(Ehrenzeichen für deutsche Volkspflege für 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 FÜR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE” (“MEDAL FOR THE CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE”), the suspension loop maker marked with Präsidialkanzlei code “21” for Gebrüder Godet & Co., Berlin, measuring 38.45 mm in diameter, weighing 27.7 grams, in extremely fine condition.