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Italy. Two Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Insignia

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Italy. Two Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Insignia

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Italy. Two Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Insignia

First patch in red, white, green, yellow and black embroidery, illustrating an oval bearing the tri-colours of the Italian flag, a fasces with the letters "ONB" below in the white field in the centre, the letter "G" on the green field at the left and the letter "I" on the red field at the right, measuring 42 mm (w) x 86 mm (h). Second patch in red embroidery on a black rayon field, illustrating a five-pointed star at the upper right with rays emanating from it, along with a fasces at the lower left, within an oval frame, measuring 43 mm (w) x 73 mm (h). 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 Gioventù 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 boy who, according to local legend, started the revolt of 1746 against the Habsburg forces that occupied the city in the War of the Austrian Succession. Perasso was chosen as the inspiration for his supposed age and revolutionary activity, while his presence in the fight against Austria reflected the irredentist stance taken by early Fascism, and Italy's victories in the First World War.