5-inch Foliating shell

[sgdbdr]

Hi,



The plate above represents a 5-inch Foliating shell.
I found it and 12 others in the "Albums Valois" (french digital archives)
I found another here : https://www.history.navy.mil/our-co...hhc-series/nh-series/NH-123000/NH-123864.html
I put all the plates together in a pdf available on my cloud drive (~5MB) : https://www.mediafire.com/file/zixqlw500k94szu/5-inch_foliating-shell.pdf/file

Who has more information about this shell ?

Cheers,

S.

 

[LEAFLET]

Thanks for posting, very interesting.
Leaflet

 

[sgdbdr]

Some plates are available here : https://catalog.archives.gov/search?page=1&q=Foliating
specially no. VI that was missing in my set.

 

[fkarno]

A de-foliating shell I can get my head around, but what is a foliating shell? Something for dispersing leaflets, perhaps?

 

[Slick]

I scanned for some info on "foliating shells" myself. All I came up with was some trench art stuff. And a parachuted rig. Neither seemed right. Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[fkarno]

Hi,

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The plate above represents a 5-inch Foliating shell.
I found it and 12 others in the "Albums Valois" (french digital archives)
I found another here : https://www.history.navy.mil/our-co...hhc-series/nh-series/NH-123000/NH-123864.html
I put all the plates together in a pdf available on my cloud drive (~5MB) : https://www.mediafire.com/file/zixqlw500k94szu/5-inch_foliating-shell.pdf/file

Who has more information about this shell ?

Cheers,

S.

YOU were the one who started the "Foliating Shell" hare running, and a few of us have admitted our complete ignorance on the subject. Are you going to tell us what it is and put us out of our misery?

 

[sgdbdr]

I wish I could ! But my last sentence maybe a clue that I know nothing more...

S.