Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of King Zvonimir's Crown, I Class With Oak Leaves Star, C.1942 Archive twenty-seven with vertical pinbacks

twenty-seven with vertical pinbacks

They received the award as POWs in internment camps

with his photo and biography

78 mm x 46

Star Second Class with Swords

Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of King Zvonimir's Crown, I Class With Oak Leaves Star, C.1942 Archive twenty-seven with vertical pinbacks(Red Krune Kralja Zvonmira). Instituted in 1941. Four piece construction, cross in bronze gilt with white enamels, bearing an open ended wreath of oak leaves in bronze gilt with green enamels, mounted to an eight pointed silver star base, maker marked "BK" (Braa Knaus, Zagreb) and NDH state hallmarked on the reverse, measuring 66. 3 mm (w) x 68. 2 mm (h), vertical pinback, crazing evident in the white enamels on the arm at 12 o'clock, along with