Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 GTRexclude 1898 in Woolwich

1898 in Woolwich

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

Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff

Knight with Swords

77 mm x 143 mm

Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 GTRexclude 1898 in WoolwichA 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