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ITALIAN OPERA BAILILA DAGGER

Italian fascist sidearm with blade marked with 'Opera Balilla', housed in its original black leather scabbard with belt loop.
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Opera Nazionale Balilla was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937, when it was absorbed into the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio, 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.