Yugoslavia, Kingdom. An Order Of The Crown, V Class Knight, C.1940

(Orden Jugoslavenske krune). Instituted in 1930. Type II with Laurel Wreath. In silver gilt with red, white, green, light blue and dark blue enamels, measuring 42.8 mm (w) x 58 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally-pierced ball suspension, reverse centrepiece rotated forty-five degrees to the right, chipping evident in the white enamels on the arms at 3 and 12 o'clock on the obverse and on the arm at 9 o'clock on the reverse, on its frayed original triangular ribbon with hook and eye, fine.

Footnote: The Order of The Yugoslav Crown was instituted by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia on April 5, 1930, to commemorate his changing of the name of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.