Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge GTRexclude Cape Colony (13052 TPR: J

Cape Colony (13052 TPR: J

Printed in black and red inks on a cream coloured paper stock

marked "935" (silver)

the outer edge of the circle trimmed in black embroidery

Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge GTRexclude Cape Colony (13052 TPR: JSilver, marked "MODELLO DEPOSITATO RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, 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 Genoese