An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Boys Newly Listed which was being completed and

which was being completed and for L 12

in silver nickel

besides 15 machine guns and a couple of cannon

Tunic Removed - BeVo-woven white threads (for Infantry)

indicating the Reich level

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Boys Newly Listed which was being completed andSilver with blue enamels, marked "800" (silver) on the reverse, 36. 5 mm, original ribbon, small chip evident in the blue enamels on the bottom point of the star, near 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