Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Group Leader's Badge United Republic of 15 mm (w) x 52

15 mm (w) x 52

missing its lugs

A complete example

The quality and rarity of the order suggest that a small number of these insignia were commissioned by a Priest or Bishop at the canonisation of Saint Rita of Cascia in 1900

vellum panel pasted in place on the reverse

Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Group Leader's Badge United Republic of 15 mm (w) x 52(Leventeszervezetek). Instituted in 1921. In bronze gilt with red, white and green enamels, measuring 40 mm (w) x 53. 5 mm (h), one of two prongs intact, scattered gilt wear, light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: Levente Associations were paramilitary youth organizations in Hungary in the interwar period and during the Second World War. It was established in 1921, with the declared purpose of physical and health training. Since the mid 1930s,