1943 - White cotton embroidered lettering on a thick red cotton field
twelve with a single screwback
vertical banjo-style pinback
the cap features two decorative gilded magnetic metal buttons
two silvered and two gilt four-sided rank pips
Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, Iii Class With Case, By Gebrüder Godet certificate_of_authenticity 1943 - White cotton embroidered(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege, Kreuz III. Stufe mit Etui). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms, overlaid by a black enameled German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with feathering and details highlighted in gilt, unmarked, measuring 40. 09