Hi all,
I must face a difficult identification problem !
A friend of mine, retired EOD Technician, dugged out, in the region of Ieper (Belgium), a strange part of iron. Seeing the remnants of the driving band similar as a 18 Pd band, he thought immediatly on a WW I british shell, but.......
The shell is hexagonal in shape ! When he asked me his problem, I though immediately on a Whitworth shell, but, on my knowledge, these shells had no driving band. This era is not my favorite and these specific shells even less.
What is your meaning about it ? Should it can be a sort of trench art or a sort of necessity transforming to use after the war ?
Calibre of the shell, measured between two flat sides is approx 12 cm.
Bottom is provided of a location for base plate or base fuze.
Have a look on the pictures.
Yoda
I must face a difficult identification problem !
A friend of mine, retired EOD Technician, dugged out, in the region of Ieper (Belgium), a strange part of iron. Seeing the remnants of the driving band similar as a 18 Pd band, he thought immediatly on a WW I british shell, but.......
The shell is hexagonal in shape ! When he asked me his problem, I though immediately on a Whitworth shell, but, on my knowledge, these shells had no driving band. This era is not my favorite and these specific shells even less.
What is your meaning about it ? Should it can be a sort of trench art or a sort of necessity transforming to use after the war ?
Calibre of the shell, measured between two flat sides is approx 12 cm.
Bottom is provided of a location for base plate or base fuze.
Have a look on the pictures.
Yoda