badge; "British Fascists"
Maker
Birmingham Medal Co
Production date
1923-1935
Description
Circular metal badge with black enamelled face. Around outside is "FOR KING AND COUNTRY" with an " F" in the centre. It is surmounted by a Tudor Rose but with a cross in the centre reflecting the Lutheran rose. Pin missing. This would have been a membership badge.
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Object detail
moulding:back:"13490/ BIRMINGHAM/ ME---- CO"
Public comments
This has nothing to do with the B U F, it is in fact a third pattern membership badge of the BRITISH FASCISTS ( 1923 - 1935 ) a group formed nine years before Mosley's BRITISH UNION OF FASCISTS and was formed and lead by a woman ( ROTHA LINTORN ORMAN.
- R. Roberts posted one year ago.