dano1917
RIP
In this hobby, the German stick grenades have to one of the most popular and recognizable grenades of all time. The m1915 WWI German stick grenade with the ball finial on the stick has to be one of the most desireable of all sticks save some of the ultra rare and one offs etc.... They usually cost 2 arms and a leg and then some. Well I found the head some years back on ebay for 35 euros. It has a few dents and a few rust holes but otherwise solid. The stick itself is reproduction (a good one) which I also scored on ebay for us20.00. Some tedious fitting, and some aging of the stick, and a green repaint of the head and I ended up with the m1915 stick on right side of photograph. So I figure I have about us65.00 invested and am real happy with the end result. My point here is that you don't have to be "daddy war bucks" to end up with what I would consider to be a very displayable and mostly original WWI m1915 German stick grenade with the ball finial. I may upgrade it someday, but to tell you the truth I have so many other fish to fry I think this one is here for the duration. If you look, you can easily find the stick grenade bodies, and even original wooden sticks. The labor and result in my mind are well worth the result. Any grenade I show in a post I always say if it's original, repro or in this case a "mutt". Some would blow boogers at such a piece but to me it is and was a labor of love....Dano
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