Aluminium No.80 Fuze

[ben2000]

Hi all,

Picked this fuze up with several others at a militaria show a couple of weeks ago. Are these First war Aluminium No.80's particularly rare? I've not seen one before(Though I haven't been collecting that long), I knew that they existed and that the British also experimented with vulcanised rubber and cast iron(?) when brass was getting scarse.

Anyway, sorry for the photo quality I had to use the camera on my phone (will take a better photo later if i remember).

Thanks, Ben.

 

[doctor]

Hi
it's N 80 Mk I or II or III
Used on shrapnel Mk I and II WW1
Date observed 1906
Krupp contract