A German Mother's Cross; Bronze Grade With Miniature Newly Listed Defensive Sector

Defensive Sector

oxidation spots on the silvered insignia

Footnote: Samuel James Gothard was born in Scotland in 1874 and worked as a Publisher in Vancouver BC and enlisted in October 1915

fire gilded tombac

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A German Mother's Cross; Bronze Grade With Miniature Newly Listed Defensive SectorFullsize: two piece construction, bronze and enamels, 36. 5 mm x 43 mm, replacement ribbon; and Miniature: two piece construction, bronze and enamels, 16. 3 mm x 20. 2 mm, on original lightly soiled, bow tied ribbon with pinback. Chipping present in the black enamels on the fullsize version, near extremely fine.