Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of King Zvonimir, I Class Commander, C.1942 United Republic of button-style pinback

button-style pinback

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A German Youth Festival badge

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brass base with a magnetic iron post and black painted wooden handle

Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of King Zvonimir, I Class Commander, C.1942 United Republic of button-style pinback(Red krune kralja Zvonimira). Instituted 1941. In bronze gilt, consisting of a stylized Croatian Trefoil cross, featuring an inlaid traditional national wattle pattern, (known as the pleter or troplet), obverse centre presenting the Crown of Zvonimir, reverse presenting the date 1076 (Date of King Zvonimir's Coronation), 1941 (Date of the establishment of the NDH), the motto BOG I HRVATI (God and the Croats), with elongated neck loop also featuring