Hello,
Seems like weekends follow one another and bring the same calibre home!
I found yesterday this wicker container with it's content: a good condition brass casing for the 15cm SK L/43 Krupp Gun Model 1916. Although the casing is pretty common, I'd never seen the wicker container before. It's the same type of construction as the 7.7cm ones, except there's only one instead of 3.
The real surprise was when I got home and took the casing off the container, only to realise the casing was complete with the lid and handle and little (but mainly iledgible) label dated 10 - 18.
Incredible to think these things stayed together for so long!
However, I have a few interrogations:
I wonder if the missing lid was also of the same kind as the metal one used on the 7.7cm. Could someone shed some light on this?
The container was made longer by a couple of inches, but the casing with the lid did fit in the original container, so why was it refurbished to be longer (similar to some of the 3-round container for the 7.7cm made longer to accomodate longer rounds). Is it for a different casing?
Thanks a lot for your comments.
Frank
Seems like weekends follow one another and bring the same calibre home!
I found yesterday this wicker container with it's content: a good condition brass casing for the 15cm SK L/43 Krupp Gun Model 1916. Although the casing is pretty common, I'd never seen the wicker container before. It's the same type of construction as the 7.7cm ones, except there's only one instead of 3.
The real surprise was when I got home and took the casing off the container, only to realise the casing was complete with the lid and handle and little (but mainly iledgible) label dated 10 - 18.
Incredible to think these things stayed together for so long!
However, I have a few interrogations:
I wonder if the missing lid was also of the same kind as the metal one used on the 7.7cm. Could someone shed some light on this?
The container was made longer by a couple of inches, but the casing with the lid did fit in the original container, so why was it refurbished to be longer (similar to some of the 3-round container for the 7.7cm made longer to accomodate longer rounds). Is it for a different casing?
Thanks a lot for your comments.
Frank