Original Italian WWII MVSN Blackshirt Officer’s Brocade Dress Belt with Buckle MG 15 one battalion of heavy artillery

one battalion of heavy artillery (from a separate artillery regiment

and has the usual crazing and checking that confirm its age

a known maker of mess tins and canteens from the mid 1930s until the end of the war

There are some very faded markings on the header

later being made Colonel of the 46th Pennsylvania Militia Infantry

Original Italian WWII MVSN Blackshirt Officer’s Brocade Dress Belt with Buckle MG 15 one battalion of heavy artilleryOriginal Item. Only One Available. The Voluntary Militia for National Security (Italian: Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, MVSN), commonly called the Blackshirts (Italian: Camicie Nere, CCNN, singular: Camicia Nera) or squadristi (singular: squadrista), was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Facist Party, known as the Squadrismo, and after 1923 an all volunteer Militia of the Kingdom of Italy under Fascist rule, similar to