An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Auction Archive and National cap cockade below

and National cap cockade below

Hilda Morrison

Accompanied by a copy of the London Gazette 39819

in fire gilded bronze

An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Auction Archive and National cap cockade belowAn Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Silvered die stamped metal, 32 mm x 43. 7 mm, vertical pinback, surface oxidation and gilt wear evident, near very fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning, as an addition to school education, between 1926 and 1937, and was then absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party.