German 2cm ID 4

[MINENAZ16]

The last.
It's the first time I see such a double color band yellow and red.
Fitted with a screwed tracer but no transmission hole so tracer could not initiate the filling (I don't know what is the filling for the moment).

 

[MINENAZ16]

I found in a french doc similar bands on Pzgr L'spur Ph (white phosphorus) or Pzgr L'spur O (inert filling, empty or weighted)
I will check on monday but markings (opposite sides) could be white "O" (Remnants of "P" ??).

 

[pzgr40/42]

"O" = Ohne Ladung, best translation to English: devoid of charge = no energetic components (other than the tracer). I do have doubts about the red band over the yellow one. This is a legit combination (have one in my collection), however the red band looks like it was added with a brush.
Would be VERY intersted in seeing good pictures of a plain yellow band "O" marked projectile.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Another one from internet with a less improvised red band !

 

[pzgr40/42]

That one certainly is correct.
I have this one in my collection

 

[pzgr40/42]

To my knowledge, inert fillers could be: ceramic, bakelite or Preßstoff (and perhaps none whatsoever).

 

[MINENAZ16]

Ok, I checked this morning, inert filling : 3 steel closing discs after the tracer. Then a ballast molded in a kind of compressed powder (color dirty white).

 

[pzgr40/42]

Hello,

The off-white filler is probably a mixture of sulphur and fine sand, see the sentence right above "code couleur"..

 

[MINENAZ16]

the french text I have



I broke the inert molded filling to the see consistency (external dirty white, internal light frey)

 

[pzgr40/42]

Nice! Do you think the off White colour is due to a chemical change, or could it be a coating (i.e. to prevent corrosion inside the projectiles cavity)?

Greetz, Menno.

 

[MINENAZ16]

I guess there has been some special treatment on the outside as it is very smooth and dirty white while the inside is gray and grainy

 

[Grzesio]

So is it eventually known, what this combination of yellow and red bands actually mean? Is it perhaps a variation of tropical marking?