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7.5cm WW1 German case ID

Burney Davis

Burney Davis

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I'm looking to ID the case in the pictures below

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Measurements are 75 x 493 x 116R and the case is dated 1900. There is a case with these measurements in the Hawkinson list suggesting it is German Naval with a question mark against the model. However, there is no naval mark on this case, and the date does not follow the usual German type with Roman numerals for the month (no month is on the case). Can anyone shed any light on what this was used with? TIA
 
This is an export shell case made by the PF Karlsruhe for the Royal Dutch Navy for their 7,5 cm Krupp guns.
38/36 is a reloading stamp meaning 38th batch of propelling charge from 1936.
It has the Navy primer No.1 from 1935.
 
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greif said:
This is an export shell case made by the PF Karlsruhe for the Royal Dutch Navy for their 7,5 cm Krupp guns.
38/36 is a reloading stamp meaning 38th batch of propelling charge from 1936.
It has the Navy primer No.1 from 1935.
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Thanks Greif. I had a suspicion this was an export case. Did the dutch mark the rim with punch marks to indicate how many times a case was fired? And do you know which vessels might have been equipped with these guns at the turn of the century?

Thanks again.
 
Burney Davis said:
Did the dutch mark the rim with punch marks to indicate how many times a case was fired? And do you know which vessels might have been equipped with these guns at the turn of the century?

Thanks again.
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Sorry for my late reply.
The Dutch didn’t use punch marks. Each time a case was reloaded the data of the propelling charge were stampend in and the old data were crossed out by stabbing. Below the head stamp of a 7 veld case, with data of propelling charges from 1917, 1920 (crossed out) and 1935 (last propelling charge used).
I found a listing in a 1908 naval handbook showing the type of gun, the year of introduction and the name of the vessel it was used on. The numbers between brackets giving the amount of that peticular gun on the vessel.
All type of guns that are mentioned in the document (kanon van 7,5 cm No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 and semi automatic 7,5 cm kanon L/55) were using the same cartridge case like yours.
 

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Thanks Greif, that's great information.

What's puzzling me is that this case has three punch marks on the rim typical of German use..... Any chance this case was German used?

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I remember seeing an image of a gun and I think round taken from the Konigsberg by Von Lettow, if some one has the book
the picture is there. The gun was dug into a trench over looking the river. This was a long time ago and I don't have the book anymore.
I could be way off and it was a much smaller calibre - :tinysmile_cry_t4:
 
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