Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and a Adcocks Woodland Gardens

and a Adcocks Woodland Gardens Badge (in gilt metal with blue

A set of Army Administration (Heeresverwaltung) officer’s shoulder boards

the NSBO was only mildly successful

the United States Congress passed a bill to award the 1st Special Service Force the Congressional Gold Medal

and it was only when surrounded that he consented to surrender

Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and a Adcocks Woodland GardensA black fez of the MVSN of English manufacture, constructed of fine black doeskin wool. The exterior top of the fez is adorned with a tassel style decoration of two braided cords with a thick bush like array of twisted tassels which hang over the side. The front presents an Italian Fasces constructed of silver and Gold bullion, measuring 22. 2mm (w) x 58. 5mm (h), showing fraying and a loss of bullion on the blade. The interior bears a 48mm brown