Germany, Federal Republic. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross with Case, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval c. 1960 Auction Archive the reverse is identical

the reverse is identical

each featuring ten decorations

marked with logo of maker Rudolf Karneth & Sohne

and initially consisted of a few former Austro-Hungarian Navy vessels surrendered at the conclusion of the First World War and transferred to the new nation state under the terms of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Germany, Federal Republic. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross with Case, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval c. 1960 Auction Archive the reverse is identicalEhrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege I. Klasse mit Etui, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, executed in black enamels with gilt highlights, the twelve oclock arm topped by an eyelet and loop retaining a ribbed suspension ring with an oak leaf