An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction 8/CAN:INF:)

8/CAN:INF:)

1866 – April 14

then returned to the 156th Infantry Battalion ten weeks later

the ferrule held in place via two brass screws

The owner is Berta Sander

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction 8/CAN:INF:)Italy : Silver, maker marked "S. JOHNSON MILANO" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, dark patina, 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