Original Italian WWII M.V.S.N. Fascist Militia Blackshirts Rare 1st Pattern Fighting Dagger with Scabbard Availability_Domestic This rifle is almost identical

This rifle is almost identical in all respects to the one in the book except that the lock plate is marked Potzdam not Pistor

The document was actually sighed in Cleveland

Album measures 10 x 11½”

They appear to show a manufacture date of Showa 16

This would indicate it was in use by the 3

Original Italian WWII M.V.S.N. Fascist Militia Blackshirts Rare 1st Pattern Fighting Dagger with Scabbard Availability_Domestic This rifle is almost identicalOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza NSDAPonale (MVSN, "Voluntary Militia for National Security"), commonly called the Blackshirts, was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party and, after 1923, an all volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy under Fascist rule. Its members were distinguished by their black uniforms (modelled on those of the Arditi, Italy's elite troops of World War I) and