An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Auction Archive Hilda Morrison

Hilda Morrison

in fire gilded bronze

Accompanied by a copy of the London Gazette 39819

complete with ring and chain suspension

box also near extremely fine

An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Auction Archive Hilda MorrisonAn 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.