Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Buy Now the upper of which is

the upper of which is dyed in black

A Dutch Volunteer Home Guards Merit Medal - In silvered bronze

extremely fine and very scarce

1919 and was discharged upon demobilization from the 3rd Battalion

Army Lanyard Shooting Badge - In stamped aluminum

Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Buy Now the upper of which isSilver, 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