It was another good weekend for ordnance at the Syracuse gunshow...My first find was a French 37mm round...a Model 1918 HE projectile in a 37-85 case.
A few questions on this one...the projectile...markings include a very large "MDA" and "153" over "SC-SC" over "140 28" on the main body, and it looks like "PBA 50" or "PBR 50" on the fuze portion. I am guessing this was made in 1928? I identified thanks to Gspragge's sticky, and another thread....it appears that these were painted yellow...can anyone give me a clear shot, or spell out the stencilling on these? I plan on re-painting this one...it was sans paint and had a heavy layer of yellowed varnish when I got it. I have already stripped the varnish.
The case it came in is pictured too...anything special or unique about this? Seems to have some extra markings and such...this too had varnish, I cleaned off the head, but not the rest.
Finally I plan on using this projectile in my Mle 1938 case, at least temporarily....but I don't think the Mle 1938 used this projectile? They seem to use a flat faced HE projo...or would this projo also be correct?
A few questions on this one...the projectile...markings include a very large "MDA" and "153" over "SC-SC" over "140 28" on the main body, and it looks like "PBA 50" or "PBR 50" on the fuze portion. I am guessing this was made in 1928? I identified thanks to Gspragge's sticky, and another thread....it appears that these were painted yellow...can anyone give me a clear shot, or spell out the stencilling on these? I plan on re-painting this one...it was sans paint and had a heavy layer of yellowed varnish when I got it. I have already stripped the varnish.
The case it came in is pictured too...anything special or unique about this? Seems to have some extra markings and such...this too had varnish, I cleaned off the head, but not the rest.
Finally I plan on using this projectile in my Mle 1938 case, at least temporarily....but I don't think the Mle 1938 used this projectile? They seem to use a flat faced HE projo...or would this projo also be correct?
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