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Scarce original period Italian military photograph showing a large group of armed naval servicemen posed together at Fiume, Italy (present-day Rijeka, Croatia).
Approximately 35-40 sailors are pictured, many carrying rifles and wearing ammunition/equipment pouches. An officer in a different uniform stands at the far left.
The reverse bears the photographer's purple studio stamp:
FOTO “LEICA”Antonio MardessichFIUMEVia M. Buonarroti No. 35, II p.
Antonio Mardessich is a documented photographer of Fiume. Historical research records him operating at this exact Via Michelangelo Buonarroti 35 address during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including documented photographs from 1938 and 1940 and directory references from 1937 and 1942.
This provides unusually strong period and location evidence for the photograph.
The exact naval unit and identities of the men have not been established, so no unsupported unit attribution is being made.
An excellent large-group Italian naval/military photograph with strong uniform, rifle and equipment detail and a documented Fiume photographer's stamp.
Sold exactly as photographed.
