From Blair (ed) 1998, for the coronation of George VI a thread of red cotton had been placed below a jewel on the front of St Edward's Crown for the Archbishop to be sure he would be placing the Crown correctly on the King's head. However "some officious person", according to the Archbishop, had removed the thread and it is possible the Crown was put on back to front, which the King always suspected, and it could have been the case. When the band was cut down in 1911 the front cross paty and flanking fleurs-de-lis were made to almost overlap. I think Baxter's pic shows the front and my pic does not. I have included all this detail because, in my source, the labelling of the diagrams of the positions of the major coloured stones is ambiguous as to where the front cross is to be counted from.