Croatia, Independent State. A Rare Paratrooper’s Sleeve Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Fine Early Quality Gold

A Fine Early Quality Gold Grade Wound Badge In tombac

Footnote: The Order of the Polar Star was instituted in 1936 and awarded for military services

and sixteen Ribbon Bars (three with a pinback)

6 and 9 o'clock on the reverse

Chipping and crazing evident in the green enamels on the Order of the Rising Sun

Croatia, Independent State. A Rare Paratrooper’s Sleeve Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Fine Early Quality GoldIn blue lacquered die stamped aluminum, 35. 9 mm (w) x 53. 7 mm, with four punched holes, with period wear, fine and rare. Footnote: This type of badge was worn during wartime by trained Croatian Paratroopers, sewn onto left upper arm of a tunic. Only several hundreds Croats trained as paratroopers during WWII.