Italy. A Fascist Blackshirts Military Cap Badge
In gold-coloured and silvered bullion wire, in various textures, illustrating a fasces surmounted by a five-sided star, framed by an open-ended wreath, with a circle at the base of the wreath, the circle with a navy blue embroidered interior fronted by a gilt metal five-sided star, on a gray wool base, black cotton mesh backer, measuring 63 mm (w) x 78 mm (h), extremely fine.

