Opera Balilla knife

flat-faced blade with a hint of edge and point, iron guard and handle with riveted wooden cheeks, black leather sheath with rear belt loop held by nickel-plated rivets: the knife follows the typical model for ONB and GIL youth organizations in the lines , but the particularly rustic workmanship and slight dimensional and also morphological differences relating at least to the sheath, which is devoid of the internal elastic blade retaining blade, make it possible to hypothesize a late manufacture, for the White Flames of the OB of the Italian Social Republic; in good condition, with signs of use and honest period patina; Interesting