Unknown grenade

[Eodtek]

It looks familiar but it has me stumped. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[paul the grenade]

it reminds me of some british smoke/gas grens that had a perforated can inside a normal sized gren body with a gap all round to allow the contents to burn a lot faster than normal. maybe the us had something similar?
paul.

 

[Eodtek]

not totally sure that the fuze is for that grenade. The side profile, to me, looks slightly Dutch but I can't find anything that matches.

 

[ordnance]

Any chance this is out of the Picatinny Museum holdings? They had a number of odd U.S. experimentals from the 1950s with odd bodies.

 

[Eodtek]

I don't believe so. I'm still trying to pin down where the item was recovered.

 

[SpudGun]

The Brits had a grenade that was for chucking in the sea to alert Frogmen. Your grenade looks a bit like one.