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 Footnote: Place Vendôme is a

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

functional and weighing 79

constructed of a silver plated non-magnetic alloy

the obverse medallion featuring a Lombardy crown on a blue enamel field

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 Footnote: Place Vendôme is a(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