Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Youth Badge, C.1940 Hold all with scalloped button down

all with scalloped button down flaps

with plain reverse presenting maker’s cartouche of LACTINHVIEN

reverse inscribed with institution date of “16 Dezember 1938” and facsimile of the Führer and Reichskanzler

Allen married Julia Wescott David

Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Youth Badge, C.1940 Hold all with scalloped button down(Leventeszervezetek). Instituted in 1921. In die stamped zinc alloy, measuring 38. 7 mm (w) x 58. 3 mm (h), with three pairs of die holes, one pair each located at the three points of the shield, the badge designed to be worn on the shoulder of the uniform, very light oxidation evident on the reverse, extremely fine. Footnote: Levente Associations were paramilitary youth organizations in Hungary in the interwar period and during the Second World War.