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Unknown Fuze (to me)

Chris

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Can anybody identify this fuze for me please.
Found on a 15 cm.
Markings are O T V and an arrow

Regards,

Chris
 

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It's a Krupp percussion fuze with setable delay, delivered to many countries. Used for 9,xx until 15,xx cm shells. Maybe even larger. With 0 T V possibly made for the Netherlands or Belgium. Sweden, Bulgaria and South American countries had them too and for sure some other I don't know. Also Germany used them during 1st WW. Inside the shell it's a pretty long and heavy fuze and not often seen.

0 = without delay
T = transport
V = delay

Drawing can be found in the dutch manuals for example (can't access my archive at moment)
 
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Fuze

Alpini do you mean the Swedish M12 fuze (see photo).
If you have any information from a (Dutch) manual please share it.

Regards,

Chris
 

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The Dutch equivalent of this fuze is the Schokbuis No. 8.
It is marked:
ZV = zonder vertraging (without delay)
MV = met vertraging (delayed)
VEILIG (safe)
 

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So the fuzes have the same working principal but the outside looks a bit different.
 
Yes, there are different shapes of these fuzes but the functionality is always the same. I really wonder if your fuze was may be introduced in Belgium? But I don't have documents about Belgium, it's still a black box for me. Do you know in which country it was found? I also wouldn't wonder if the Netherlands at least got some of them for trials. The Dutch No.2 is also one of this series, probably the earliest.

@MINENAZ16: This 15 cm Gr. 14 was called may be "15 cm Gr. 14 mit Krupp-Zünder". I read about it in the archives but sadly no drawing was attached. But there is still one more candidate for this shell: the dutch Schokbuis No.16 because it would fit directly into a 15 cm Gr.14 and I think it was used during WW1 (most probably taken from stocks produced for the Netherlands which were never delivered because the war started)
 

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Thank you Alpini,

They told me they were found in Belgium on 15 cm Shells
 

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