Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 GTRexclude and close with a French

and close with a French fly consisting of nine black bakelite buttons meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes

77 mm x 143 mm

Private Jenks met Scotsman 9553 Private George Wilson of the 2nd Battalion

the reverse maker marked “FOERSTER & BARTH

Schleswig (northern Germany)

Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 GTRexclude and close with a FrenchA black fez of the MVSN of English manufacture, constructed of fine black doeskin wool. The exterior top of the fez is adorned with a tassel style decoration of two braided cords with a thick bush like array of twisted tassels which hang over the side. The front presents an Italian Fasces constructed of silver and Gold bullion, measuring 22. 2mm (w) x 58. 5mm (h), showing fraying and a loss of bullion on the blade. The interior bears a 48mm brown