Improvised German flare booby trap

[Tmine35]

Several years ago we found from ruins of a German WW2 field workshop some of these flare booby trap devices in burned relic condition. I started to restore one but then forgot it for years until it popped up in one of my junk boxes today again.
It has a simple base with short "barrel" having a bayonet lug attachment. Firing pin system is made from a Russian MUV-fuze ( dated 1941 ) by cutting it shorter and soldering it on the base.
Naturally the flare cartridge shown is only a fired empty case.

 

[genkideskan]

Very interesting device. Here is annother field workshop flare trap.
Two wooden halves fix a flare cartridge and a ZZ 42. Its no problem
to fire the flare from the cartridge without barrel.



It was used to safe obstacles, barbed wire, minefields and trenches.
In WW.1 we used glas tubes, filled with chemicals. If somebody break the glas a puff and a flash flame where produced to wake up the trench guards.

 

[Tmine35]

Here one more.