Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of Merit, Rare Lady's Moslem Version Hold each constructed of light brown

each constructed of light brown cotton twill with field-grey wool underlays

designer marked “I

were met by very deadly fire from hidden machine guns

stamped in black ink "100" on the underside of the belt at the right end

Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of Merit, Rare Lady's Moslem Version Hold each constructed of light brownLady's Third Class Breast Badge, "Moslem version" in shape of lily, as issued to female Moslem recipient (of Bosnia Herzegovina), 26. 0mm(w) x 35. 0mm(h), suspended from original bow style ribbon, unmarked, but of typical "Braca Knaus, Zagreb" manufacture, in extremely fine condition and extremely rare. Footnote: The Croatian Order of Merit, instituted in 1942, have some unique features amongst WWII period awards, most notably, there are two versions: