Uniforms of italian partisans

[NickG]

A dealer is offering this one as a summer Russian tunic...???
The tag (old museum tag?) reads Partisan Soviet?
Perhaps Italian communist partisan used???

Correct? What is it? Italian WW2?

[NickG]

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[NickG]

Tag description??? " Sowjet Partisan R.R. Rom 1943"

Thoughts?

[NickG]

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[NickG]

Last set...
RSI period???
or???

[tankredi]

Looks pretty much like an Italian late war RSI sahariana to me.

Any chance to get some more pictures of the inside of the jacket?
Any stamps present on the inside?

[enorepap]

Hallo NickG

In 1943 in Rome, there were only a few radical chic boys, sons of the Fascist leaders who amused themselves by betraying the Italian army forces, with the acquiescence of the weak dictator Mussolini and the police, while our soldiers were fighting for life or death at El Alamein and the Don. No authentic communist partisan in Rome despite the post-war clowns. You must tell your vendor to clarify the origins of your safari jacket.

[NickG]

Hallo NickG

In 1943 in Rome, there were only a few radical chic boys, sons of the Fascist leaders who amused themselves by betraying the Italian army forces, with the acquiescence of the weak dictator Mussolini and the police, while our soldiers were fighting for life or death at El Alamein and the Don. No authentic communist partisan in Rome despite the post-war clowns. You must tell your vendor to clarify the origins of your safari jacket.

Seller claims its a Russian summer tunic...Identificatian based on the word "Soviet" in desciption of this old tag...
The 1943 date on the tag (museum inventory tag?) does correspond with the RSI period (early) and I am not even sure it reads "Rome" on the tag... So let's ignore the tag info!
What counts are tunic stamps which unfortunately lack, so lets focus on the style/cut!

The pattern screams RSI to me, but do the buttons, cuffs and shoulderstraps correspond with this pattern collarless RSI style "Sahariana?
He wants $175 for it. Worth the gamble? Looks like RSI to me.

[NickG]

Looks pretty much like an Italian late war RSI sahariana to me.

Any chance to get some more pictures of the inside of the jacket?
Any stamps present on the inside?

More pictures!

[NickG]

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[NickG]

Final set inside out!!

[enorepap]

More pictures!

Hallo NickG

Now we start to go well. From your picture nr. 9 we see a card from which it can be deduced that the jacket belonged to a member of the 118th Garibaldi Brigade "Remo Servadei" of the Valsesia. Servadei was a Resistance fighter (born in Milan on May 29, 1926, silver medal for military valour) who was hanged in Borgosesia on July 18, 1944. At first, a single battalion and then the entire brigade (which was led by Armando Caldara and had as political commissar Ubaldo Papa) was entitled to his memory. In the second battalion of the brigade there were also 37 Georgians deserters. From 1947 to 1949, some former members of the Brigade formed a Red Mobile "Martyrs Partisans" unit, which committed numerous crimes against allegedly former fascists.
I enclose you some studies about the Brigade during the Second World War. At this point. it is plausible that this is a Sahariana used by a communist partisan in the Resistance in Piedmont.

http://www.puntaemazzetta.net/wordpr...taServadei.pdf

http://resistenzaunita.isrn.it/doc/1970MAG-ru-05.pdf

http://www.anpibovisiomasciago.it/im...olanteLoss.pdf

[NickG]

Great stuff! So the tag is a "red" partisan unit tag!!! Even better!
I've already requested the seller to place the tunic on hold for me and he confirmed it and payment is on it's way to IL!

I won't see the Sahariana until sometime after July 8th because of a vacation schedule, but hopefully after I inspect it (in hand)
I can find some period maker ink stamps!

It looks like the aluminum field made Partisan tag was stitched on the tunic sleeve at one point...Would that be correct?

[enorepap]

Nice one Nick. It is not easy to find objects definitely attributable to the partisans, either directly in Italy.

[enorepap]

[It looks like the aluminum field made Partisan tag was stitched on the tunic sleeve at one point...Would that be correct?
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Yes, this is probable because the parallelogram has the characteristics of an arm shield. In fact you can notice the four holes to sew it and the remains of the wire used for this purpose. Amongst the partisans a large freedom reigned about the uniforms. Try to see from the links I've sent you and maybe you may find what you need carefully examining the photographs