Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross of the German Mother, Gold Grade with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier certificate_of_authenticity A Post War Signed Photograph

A Post War Signed Photograph of Knight's Cross Recipient - Adolf Galland

24 September 1923 in Gieschewald/Giszowiec) on 12 September 1944

First model

with the Albania two-headed eagle at its base and surmounted by the Helmet of Skanderbeg

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross of the German Mother, Gold Grade with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier certificate_of_authenticity A Post War Signed Photograph(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 rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, bearing a central white disc overlaid by a black swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), the reverse