Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge GTRexclude The other two pockets at

The other two pockets at the waist are larger and deeper than the breast pockets and have fold over flaps and are designed to be buttonless

the outer edge of the circle trimmed in black embroidery

Devonshire coat-of-arms emboss stamped

then transferred the next day to No

Printed in black and red inks on a cream coloured paper stock

Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge GTRexclude The other two pockets atSilver, 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