UNIQUE CROWN OF LOMBARDY.
Tei", iron crown of Lombardy is unique among the emblems of Royalty in the known world. ft preserves its ancient form more than any other now worn. It is the most treasured national possession of the Italian kingdom. It is of golden "plaques," or panels, rather longer than they are high, but small in size, so as not to rise above the top of the head. They form, indeed, only a jointed band of foliaged embossed relief workj and one narrow wire of iron binds them together in the inside—this wire having the repute of being hammered out from one of the nails of our .Saviour's cross. It was the enlargement of these panels in other crowns which led to the cross band or " closure" of the crown. Look at the German crown and the Austrian, both adaptations of that of the old Emperors of the " Holy Roman Empire." The " arch of empire" became the result in the crown of the necessity for fastening panels for protection for the head from any stroke from above delivered in war.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12070, 13 September 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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182UNIQUE CROWN OF LOMBARDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12070, 13 September 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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