German 10,5 cm

[Dwight]

I have a 10,5 cm german shell (with brass casing from 1939) which I inherited from my father in law. It is a cutaway round and my father in law had started to remove the paint from the shell. My father in law told me that the shell was painted yellow by the Norwegian army after the war and that it was for a german C/32 gun. From what I can see there is another layer of paint (with stenciling) under the paint which was removed. My question is: Is this the original german paint? Grateful for all information!

 

[M8owner]

I vote that the darker yellow underneath is original German ordnance yellow.

 

[Dwight]

Normally I just leave things like they are but this time I decided to continue the work my father in law had started. Under the first layer of paint, this is what I found.

 

[Dwight]

Some more pictures. Last picture shows the cutaway. As said before, I normally like to leave things as they are!

 

[HAZORD]

First time I've seen a section done with a cutting torch!

 

[Dwight]

Yes, it is not a very nicely finished cutaway!

 

[Alpini]

The markings are not german.

I don't think a cutting torch was used as the yellow color wouldn't have survived it. But wonder which technique was used, a waterjet maybe? I think it's a good base to flatten the cut surface on a milling machine because both cuts are looking accurate and straight just the edges are a little bit ugly A 10,5 cm fits on most medium size milling machines. After that grinding the surace with sand paper as a last step.

 

[Dwight]

Many thanks for the information. Much appreciated! Do you think the colour is the original? Attached a picture of the case base.

 

[greif]

The black markings on the shell are post war. The designation “TNT” wasn’t used by the German navy/army in WW2 on their ordnance. Also the primer is post war, RA-67 = Raufoss 1967.

 

[Dwight]

Again many thanks for the information! But do you think the colour is original? And yes, the primer is post war made by Raufoss, which makes sense. Any idea if it is difficult to obtain the correct original german primer? From what I understand, the projectile and the shell are original. Would be nice to have an original primer as well! Attached is also a picture of the complete shell.