Incredibly rare exploding 'rat bomb'

[Anders]

Incredibly rare exploding rat bomb given to British spy to destroy German factories during the Second World War goes up for auction for £1,500

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5129847/WWII-rat-bomb-given-British-spy-auction.html

 

[highlandotter]

Like the one in the movie "The Guns of Navarone'?

 

[millsbomber]

OMG the L Delay is round the wrong way, these fakers just cannot get it right,,,,,,,, Lol

 

[MINENAZ16]

Another one : http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/92814-Explosive-rat?highlight=NAVARRONE

 

[kahu1]

Oh no, now you guys are going to need special licences if you get caught with rats,how are the authorities going to know they are inert rats??(paraphrase Monty Python.."Hes an ex-Rat")

 

[ozziammo]

Poor old rat, no wonder his eyes are bulging!!! LOL.

 

[pzgr40]

I smell a rat!

 

[Snufkin]

If anyone fancies a bid at the auction:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24254/lot/1229/

And a previous one sold by Bonhams:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23485/lot/287/



Tom.

 

[reccetrooper]

If anyone fancies a bid at the auction:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24254/lot/1229/

And a previous one sold by Bonhams:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23485/lot/287/



Tom.

A few thoughts.

IF the one coming up for sale is genuine, someone would have had to unstitch the skin, remove the PE, stuff it with a safe substance, and then sew it back up again. It seems like a lot of effort to create a training item so that the German forces would know what a stuffed rat looks like.

OR maybe it’s genuine and still stuffed with PE.


The label on the one that was sold previously looks like it was written after the label was scrunched and creased, as the writing looks fresh and is clearly readable. The auctioneers description of it having a space for explosives to be inserted does not match the usual description of a rat skin being sewn around the PE filling.

 

[Snufkin]

IF the one coming up for sale is genuine, someone would have had to unstitch the skin, remove the PE, stuff it with a safe substance, and then sew it back up again.

Perhaps it was steamed out with superheated steam. Which might also explain why it's bald.

 

[HAZORD]

Ratus non gratis!

 

[sgtlynn]

I think the one sold by Bonhams has landed in an American Museum.

 

[Gspragge]

I think there was a better way ~

 

[Anders]

The label on the one that was sold previously looks like it was written after the label was scrunched and creased, as the writing looks fresh and is clearly readable. The auctioneers description of it having a space for explosives to be inserted does not match the usual description of a rat skin being sewn around the PE filling.

Very good observed, I believe you are right.:tee: