An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Buy Now He lost his left eye

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An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Buy Now He lost his left eyeAn 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.