An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold 168 mm x 229 mm

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

He was activated when hostilities broke out at the start of September 1939

he added a D

After fall of Jugoslavia

An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold 168 mm x 229 mmAn 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.