Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of The Crown Of King Zvonimir, I Class With Swords, C.1941 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac In fine quality machine woven

In fine quality machine woven BeVo style embroidery in golden-yellow threading

77 mm (w) x 61

with un-sharpened edges and having a pointy tip

which he commanded with great coolness and skill for 2 hours

John Jeffery Nicholls

Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of The Crown Of King Zvonimir, I Class With Swords, C.1941 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac In fine quality machine woven(Red krune kralja Zvonimira). Instituted in 1941. In bronze gilt with white enamels, unmarked but known to have been manufactured by Braca Knaus of Zagreb, consisting of a stylized Croatian Trefoil cross, featuring an inlaid traditional national wattle pattern, (known as the pleter or troplet), obverse centre illustrating the Crown of Zvonimir with crossed swords, reverse inscribed with the dates "1076" (Date of King Zvonimir's Coronation) and "1941"