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can somebody identify this 47mm projectile, please?
The fuze (or just plug?) is interesting, because left screwed.
Unfortunately the rotating band is lost.
One odd thing is that the groove for the driving band is straight and has no means of preventing any band swaged onto it from spinning ?????????????
Looks well old and I would guess WW1 vintage possibly even earlier.
This looks like a larger version of an Austrian 37mm round , probably used in the 47mm Hotchkiss gun. If so, it could be a bouncer, which had a black powdwe charge in the nose which propelled it up in the air where the HE detonated, Check to see if there are threads down inside of the prrojectile body.
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