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Italian human torpedo time fuzes? or what?

Rrickoshae

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what do you make of these that I obtained today? 2 similar, but different, brass time fuzes marked 0 - 10. No markings on one (but unusually, the s beside the downward pointing arrow has an exclamation mark after it), the other is stamped '9447/s' 'GR 1400' and '119 under a logo'.

Both appear similar to one shown on the forum before but they are not identical. Could it be different marks of the same thing, or perhaps not italian and perhaps not a torpedo time fuze. Over to you experts!!

The other items that were in the same box give little away, a Belgian helmet, a Royal Navy pith helmet and a stokes mortar bomb.

thanks, Dave
 

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looking more carefully at the video clip of the Italian human torpedo, the fuzes I have look more like the ones shown than the one shown in the posting as that one has a flat spot where the safety pin is whereas the one in the video clip, and mine, do not. Dave
 
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