An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold center appliqu in gilt and

center appliqu in gilt and enamels

participated in operations in Southern France

paper residue on the reverse of the ribbons from previous board mounting

all embroidered in silvery wire

168 mm x 229 mm on a 205 mm x 272 mm board)

An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold center appliqu in gilt andAn 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.