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Very rare metallic variant of the hat badge for officers and non-commissioned officer of the Navy of the Italian Social Republic.
This hat badge was worn by all the units, including the departments of the X Mas.
Some marines sewed it on the basque in a non-regulary manner.
It was introduced as a replacement for the embroidered version, and it appeared only after mid-1944. Its distribution therefore remained rather limited.
The central oval, with the anchor inside, was of different colors depending on the specialty: