Original German WWII 2nd Class Silver Mother’s Cross Pin by Friedrich Orth of Vienna in LDO Box - Cross of Honor of the German Mother Multi Nation Flags Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the central command of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military forces

There is some light oxidation and fouling in the grooves

to preserve the history

and there is some surface cracking on the belt straps in the back

The front is marked with a very nice BeVo style embroidered TENO eagle

Original German WWII 2nd Class Silver Mother’s Cross Pin by Friedrich Orth of Vienna in LDO Box - Cross of Honor of the German Mother Multi Nation Flags Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers EuropeOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely example of The Cross of Honor of the German Mother or Mutterkreuz (Mothers Cross) in Bronze (2nd class, Silver Cross: eligible mothers with six or seven children), in a smaller pin badge configuration. It comes complete in a very nice LDO box, which are quite hard to find, and definitely adds to the value of this piece. Reverse of pin reads 16 December 1938, which is the date that the award was first