A Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Young Men Newly Listed beginning on June 17

beginning on June 17

(Japanning describes the European imitation of Asian lacquerwork

After two weeks in hospital

The survivors

A Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Young Men Newly Listed beginning on June 17Silver with blue enamels, marked "800" (silver) on the reverse, 39. 5 mm, original ribbon, intact enamels, 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