Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge certificate_of_authenticity On the right breast pocket

On the right breast pocket is a beautiful German Cross in Gold

dual prong pinback

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fine quality manufacture

Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge certificate_of_authenticity On the right breast pocketSilver, marked "MODELLO DEPOSITATO RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, very light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937, when it was absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party. It takes its name from Balilla, the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a Genoese