37mm Turkish drill round ?

[Burney Davis]

A recent acquisition which I took a bit of a punt on. The case itself is 37 x 170 x 48R. From pictures I thought it might be a canister round but the 'projectile' is actually solid. Looking at the colour it could well be bronze. It is fixed to the case by what looks like 4 pins. However, looking at their orientation they could just be 2 pins which go through the projectile from side to side.

Looking at the headstamp it has what appears to be the early Turkish Crescent surmounted by a mark I can't quite make out. The 'V' beneath could be the Arabic symbol for 7 and the bottom number 10 over 301.

A good friend has found that Egypt had two of these guns but no information about Turkey having them. So is this Turkish or not? Thoughts much appreciated.

 

[Hoeksel]

Awesome! Turkish army indeed, and some numbers.

 

[Gspragge]

Well this time one can have it both ways ! So Turkish markings on Egyptian material makes sence ~
The Ottomans administered Egypt as a province (eyalet) of their empire (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت مصر, romanized: Eyālet-i Mıṣr). It remained formally an Ottoman province until 1914, though in practice it became increasingly autonomous during the 19th century and was under de facto British control from 1882.