Carved wooden Italian Fascist badge
Date made: 1942
Maker: unknown
Description: Carved wooden Italian fascist Party badge, hand made in Peveril (?) Camp, 1942 (marked on reverse 'IOM 1942'.)
Red, white and green bands, fasces and letters P.N.F. Painted and varnished.
Belonged to Guglielmo Bertucci, a Scottish-Italian, donor's grandfather (see MNH collection Reference No: PG/13771). Guglielmo Bertucci is recorded on the 1939 Register as the keeper of an ice cream and confectionary shop at 53 St Michael Street, Dumfries. He was born 10 October 1902. He died in Dumfries in 1985.
Materials: wood
Object name: badge
Collection: Social History Collection
ID Number: 2013-0002
Subject tags : #WW2INTERNMENTMUSEUMCOLLECTIONS