A challenge

**Nismosonic** · 5th February 2012, 11:58 AM

Mine is my No 23 Mills gren given to me by a friend when I was 13. not saw another like it since, body marked "fico".

**Fusse2004** · 5th February 2012, 11:59 AM

Also I would like to present my dearest piece!!! NO 27 with large socket. Harry

**TonyE** · 5th February 2012, 12:55 PM

Difficult, difficult.

I considered my 30/20 Aden, I considered my .303 Mark I Buckingham (to name a couple of previously suggested candidates), I considered my aluminiun case .303 and 20mm Hispanos, my .276 inch Pattern '13 Inspectors round and many others, but no.

In the end I plumped for perhaps an odd choice, a British military steel armourer's round for the .23 inch Aiming Tube for the Martini Henry and early .303 inch rifles. I have had this for well over thirty years and it has always "spoken" to me.

It is on the left in the picture.

Regards
TonyE

**siegfreid** · 5th February 2012, 03:15 PM

Dave . It's an SOE Limpet Mine , so , you were spot on ! Mike.

**charley777** · 10th February 2012, 02:35 AM

IMG_4791.jpg IMG_4794.jpg IMG_4795.jpgIn some ways, my favourite piece is the one i'm looking at at the time.
But this week, if i could only keep one round, it would be this one. The cases are, i believe relatively common. I got mine via Holland via Finland.
However, the projectiles seem to be rare (open to correction!). Mine came from Japan where there is quite a lot of Russian stuff from their war pre-WW1.
And only when it arrived here and i had a good look at it did i recall an article in the ECRA bulletin by Leslie Thurston showing a wooden mock-up he'd had made for this size case, originals being so hard to find. It is a 75x660R (rim 101mm) M1892 L/50. The guns being licenced from Schneider.
So there it is.....
I enjoy it anyway!
Charley

**Dronic69** · 10th February 2012, 04:50 AM

That's easy - would have to be an early Whitehead Torpedo pistol - which is my "Holy Grail"!!!!

The problem is I haven't got one......................yet!

So in the interim, would have to be the rare Clarke Naval Bomb Fuse (or top part of!)

Cheers
Drew

**whsammler** · 10th February 2012, 02:20 PM

Mine is hands down my J-FEDER 504 fuze.

**ogreve** · 11th February 2012, 10:54 PM

Mine took me less than a split second to decide. It is not the item that started my collection, nor is it by any means the rarest piece I have (which would probably be my Japanese 30x115 case (incoming), or the 37x145 Ho-204 case, or a different choice from my Japanese collection), and no, it's not even the Kwk 43 APHE round which I VERY painstakingly fully restored by hand.

No. Mine is an item that's close to ubiquitous. It's value at fairs over here is a few Euros at most. It's a German WW2 Zünderbüchse, as used for e.g. the Zt.Zs./30 nose fuzes.

The reason?
My grandfather was deported (from Holland) to Germany in 1942, and he was put to work in a factory in Bochum-Zelte, and was over there until the end of the war. Upon liberation by US troops, he was so much weakened from the extremely hard labour and harsh conditions that he was not even able to flee the grounds of the factory and had to recuperate strength for almost a year in the south of The Netherlands before he could finally go home (in 1946). For him and my grandmother the war was a topic not to be mentioned. It was so much of a no-no, that nowadays we don't know what it was my grandfather was working on.
There are precious little clues; the only two things he brought back were a self made aluminum match-box protector, inscribed with a date in 1942, and the location Bochum-Zelten, and the aforementioned Zünderbüchse.
The Zünderbuchse is in my collection now, and I'm very proud to own it. Though as an item it is insignificant for collectors, due to it's history I wouldn't trade it for the rarest Japanese item in the world.

Cheers,
Olafo

**ken68** · 12th February 2012, 04:21 PM

Think i would keep my restored 120mm L32 projectile , dont know why? its the newest kit i got not the most expensive ..................... its def the cheiftain