Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 GTRexclude Schleswig (northern Germany)

Schleswig (northern Germany)

designed with a zipper fly

the reverse maker marked “FOERSTER & BARTH

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

featuring a black-enamelled Iron Cross with oak leaves on either side

Italy, Fascist State. A British Made Italian Blackshirt Fez, C. 1940 GTRexclude Schleswig (northern Germany)A 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