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Hello!!
I found in a Barcelona's flea market the mortar of the photo, painted in color aluminum.
Anyone knowthis?
Compared with my other 81 mm mortar: 81mm Valero, 81mm Valero Reformado and ECIA 81mm (post-war)
Same body and fins as later french ww1 81mm BM18 but different fuze adapter.
I recently posted about this kind of round used after ww1 as practice with improved fins and special cylindrical gaine (spotting charge).
I assume your is a spanish copy with specific fuze and adapter. http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/98455-Interesting-french-practice-81mm-mortar-projos
It's probably French.
In the spanish forums nobody knows tis.
It's the problem of the flea markets, you can not know where it came from.
Thank you again, Minenaz!!!
Hello Amunicionador, yes it is French, as MINENAZ16 identified it, but what is puzzling is the fuze adapter, and I am pretty sure it isn't a fuze adapter but a lamp adapter... I think what you have is what's left of a piece of trench art made from a 81mm BM18 mortar projo painted silver so at the time it displayed better on a mantel piece or on a table.
Below are a few pictures of a 75mm shell, painted and dated 1900 with the same kind of adapter.
Hello Amunicionador, yes it is French, as MINENAZ16 identified it, but what is puzzling is the fuze adapter, and I am pretty sure it isn't a fuze adapter but a lamp adapter... I think what you have is what's left of a piece of trench art made from a 81mm BM18 mortar projo painted silver so at the time it displayed better on a mantel piece or on a table.
Below are a few pictures of a 75mm shell, painted and dated 1900 with the same kind of adapter.
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