Original Item. Only One Available. This is a very nice custom-embroidered example of an Italian National Fascist Party or “PNF” Banner, which would be hung during meetings or at someone’s home. The banner is single-sided, featuring a depiction of a fasces over the Italian flag colors with P N F around the base of the fasces. There are many small loops along the top but there is no defined hanging loop.

The banner including the black tassels along the left, right and bottom edges measures  8 ¾ x 15 ¼”, but the base banner without the tassels is 7 ¼ x 13 ¾”. A very attractive example for any WWII Italian collection.

Ready to display.

The National Fascist Party (Italian: Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian fascism and as a reorganisation of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat. The party ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 when Fascists took power with the March on Rome until the fall of the Fascist regime in 1943, when Mussolini was deposed by the Grand Council of Fascism. The National Fascist Party was succeeded by the Republican Fascist Party in the territories under the control of the Italian Social Republic, and it was ultimately dissolved at the end of World War II.

The National Fascist Party was rooted in Italian nationalism and the desire to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay. Italian Fascists claimed that modern Italy was the heir to ancient Rome and its legacy and historically supported the idea of continued expansion of the Italian Empire to provide spazio vitale ("living space") for colonisation by Italian settlers and to establish control over the Mediterranean Sea. The party also supported social conservative stances.