A Croatian Order Of Merit Third Class With Miniature Grand Cross Auction Archive 1945 in which forty-two Lancaster

1945 in which forty-two Lancaster

and served in India on the Punjab Frontier in 1897-98

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A Croatian Order Of Merit Third Class With Miniature Grand Cross Auction Archive 1945 in which forty-two LancasterOrder of Merit with Miniature Grand Cross Third Class Breast badge in silver and enamels, with miniature Grand Cross attached to ribbon. Cross measures 36 x 36mm, mounted on original ribbon. This particular example is a very first issue of this Order having a low profile, at the same level as enamel (not raised above the enamel), composed of the Croatian Coat of Arms in form of a triple braid (known in Croatian as 'pleter'). Later manufactured