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Help need with id of two Grenades

kradman

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Picked up these two today can anyone help with their id the one looks to be British but cant find any marking on them , thank you for any help
 

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Second one looks like No16 British shape. Used by other countries (Estonia, Poland, etc)
 
Just a guess, unfinished or made for a stick like Vietnamese grenades.
Brass plug seems to be expensive !

Example of NVA F1 modified with wood stick:

NVA.jpgNVA2.JPG



Example of Polish rifle grenade :
F1 RIFLE POLAND.jpg
 
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What about the 'Mills' type base plug? Could it possibly be a half complete grenade that would have been filled with a All Ways fuze set?
 
Thank you all for your input , it was with a group of ww1 items so I would have thought it was also ww1 but who knows
 
Thank you all for your input , it was with a group of ww1 items so I would have thought it was also ww1 but who knows

Well the Great War was a frantic place for development of the All Ways fuze, so it is probably WW1.
 
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